LughDutch firm Meatable can turn pig stem cells into sausages 60 times faster than farmers can rear pigs.
NomecksTechnically kosher because there’s no cloven hooves?
As a technical Jew I can say that yes, this is technically kosher ^disclaimer: I have no knowledge at all of Jewish custom or scripture^
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Their mother was Jewish but they haven’t been taught the religion, making them technically Jewish but without any knowledge of Judaism.
gregorumHe’s a Jew but not Jewish.
Like me.
One is an ethnicity. The other is a religion. It’s easy to get them confused.
So is everybody here a technical Jew? Like, that’s three of us, and this isn’t a huge community.
I culture cells for a living.
Not that these are the only ways, but the most common and effective ways to grow cells in the lab is to add either FBS (fetal bovine serum) or BSA (bovine serum albumin) to the culture media.
Currently we don’t mass produce BSA in an animal free manner and FBS is by nature an animal product.
Granted, that the products of one animal may in fact allow manufacturers produce more than enough ‘animal-free meat’ to overcome this but I haven’t seen any numbers.
I’m interested in hearing more about these techniques going forward and in determining if animal-free products can really be produced animal free.
What if it requires 1/1000th the number of animals … but each one suffers a hundred times more?
Would it be worth it?
0xDHow do you quantify suffering?
If you don’t have a way of quantifying suffering, perhaps all utilitarian calculus is bunk?
mojofrododojostem cells can suffer? this isn’t cloning an animal, it’s cloning certain tissues.
Hence the word “if” here. A hypothetical scenario.
From a utilitarian perspective, you’re still reducing overall suffering by an order of magnitude, so your scenario is still a greater good.
This assumes a linear value function of course
I culture cells for a living.
Sorry, this is all my addled GenX brain could think of when I read that.
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