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by samstave 1566 days ago
Some future Black Mirror comments on this concept:

You haven't paid your protein bill this month, thus your micormeat subscription has been suspended and your Meat Machine (TM) will no longer grow any new meat for you.

We have given our executives and shareholders an exceptional return on their investments, and with your lack of being able to pay your Protein Bill, our record profits are hurting, Your account has been permanently suspended.

We have reviewed your appeal, and we found that our pricing model of 'meat by the gram' is sound and we have done nothing wrong in preventing you from getting your weekly allowance of allowed protein substance [Product] and hereby will be blocking all access to our services. This is an automated message, you have no recourse and may never contact an employee of Made Meat. Do not reply to this message.

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Oh good! I got downvoted!

Alright, MF'rs - I apploud everything about this busniss.. but lets talk long term:

The stem cells are from which organism?

Where did they come from?

---I have an aside from a hospital at UCSF Dog Patch was researching how to express stem cells to a particular tissue.

I watched this machine in fucking person...

Where did stem cells come from?

There will be a black market in ~15 years for stem-call based organs that originate in non human sources.

There will be a bio-ID using the foundation f CRISPR to "digitally sign the origin of the DNA manufactured by this system" -- wait until you have digitally assigned, approved and allotted genes in a hemogonist platform of Micro-meats.