You: It’s What’s For Dinner

One of my favorite questions to ask militant vegans is whether or not they would eat meat grown in a lab, and cultured from animals in ways that don’t inconvenience them in any way. The reasonable vegans are usually OK with the idea, the less reasonable ones give me exactly the reaction I was looking for in the first place.

All baiting aside, this line of inquiry raises some interesting questions. If we could grow beef, chicken, or pork in a lab from innocuously harvested cells could we not also grow human meat? And if so, would there be a market for it? Considering the horrific deviancy of our readership (and oh how we love you for it) I say an emphatic yes is the only reasonable answer. Apparently a student at Cranbrook (a college of art and science) agrees.

Thanapong Vudhichamnong, the aforementioned student with a jones for auto-cannibalism, and the best name I’ve seen in a long time, has created the consuME Meat Make; a speculative design that would grow a small donut-shaped piece of meat fit for consumption from a biological sample. While this would do wonders for global stability as far as consumption of resources is concerned, I can’t imagine this device would be available for very long before someone made a human sample.

So…who wants Rosenburgers?

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