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by codeulike 1831 days ago
We can do it now, just not at anywhere near competitive scale/cost yet

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/12/2/22125518/lab-gr...

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No. A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is not a drumstick. There is no bone, there is no skin, there is no cartilage, there is no connective tissue.

Would it not make sense to re-use the circulatory, filtration, energy production, digestive, and excretory systems that evolved over millions of years to locomote chicken flesh, rather than try to re-engineer these systems? Just ditch the brain. If there’s no sentience, what is the ethical difference between this and vat-grown synflesh?

A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is all I want from chicken.

I remove the bones anyway.