Lab grown meat already exists. The same processes could easily make human meat without harming the human.

I’m fairly certain this will at some point lead to a social media fad of people trying, well, people. It seems like every possible stupid action has already been turned into one at this point https://eu.app.com/story/news/world/2024/03/07/what-is-tiktok-chroming-trend/72879475007/

Onlyfans creators already sell stuff like toenail clippings and bathwater https://kotaku.com/belle-delphine-onlyfans-paypal-pornhub-bath-water-1851491916

Wouldn’t be difficult to imagine people buying meat made of their favourite creator. What they do with it is between them and their god.

“Do you really want to eat Bella Thorne’s ass? Well, for just $19.99 you can fry up a small part of it!”

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
    13·
    6 months ago

    Currently not. Lab grown meat is a more or less homogeneous mass of muscle fiber. A few years ago we could only make what is essentially minced meat, now we’re getting closer to entire steaks. Still far away from growing specific muscle groups, organs, bones and skin.

    • MHanak@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      I mean i theory we can clone mammals, the problem is it would take a long while for your “buddy” to grow up to a usable size

      • Magiilaro@feddit.org
        8·
        6 months ago

        The problem with cloning would also be that a clone of a human is a human with all rights and limitations, the “buddy” would be a slave.

          • Magiilaro@feddit.org
            6·
            6 months ago

            Performing a lobotomy to a human sounds highly illegal in itself, but as far as I know are lobotomized humans still humans with all human rights.

            • MHanak@lemmy.world
              41·
              6 months ago

              Well, that’s fair enough, but i think we already abandoned legality of the whole operation at the “growing entire human body” part

              • Magiilaro@feddit.org
                4·
                6 months ago

                I don’t think that there is a legal issue with that, as long as only a lifeless body is grown

                • MHanak@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  The problem with a lifeless body is it will quickly decompose, so it has to have basic functions like breathing and blood pumping

                  • Magiilaro@feddit.org
                    2·
                    6 months ago

                    No brain but a microcontroller to give the right electric signals to the lungs and heart.

                    It is a fascinating Gedankenexperiment, very creepy and dark but fascinating

      • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
        5·
        6 months ago

        BONK

        (You are aware that lab-grown meat is still meat and not an independent organism, right? It’s essentially dead and would rot within hours if kept at room temperature)

        • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukOP
          2·
          6 months ago

          Yea. Freeze it, thaw it, microwave it, “use” it, dispose of it.

          I’m not actually planning on doing any of that, just talking about what is and isn’t theoretically possible.