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Dutch firm Meatable can turn pig stem cells into sausages 60 times faster than farmers can rear pigs. (tech.eu)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Slaughter them for one last time and spare their future generations by removing their lineage from existence. Nbd

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

That's straight ignorance. You don't abandon a curated breed of livestock based on some short term innovation. Humanity's dependence on these types animals is older than recorded history. You would doom us all if the technology fails and we can not go back to traditional methods.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, poor little humans, imagine having to live by *checks notes* eating vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh, the humanity!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

And meat is by far not the only thing we cultivate pigs for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry chief, I'm unable to fathom the logic underlying this comment.

Do you think that the day the first stem cell sausage hits the supermarket shelves pigs will be deleted from this reality?

You'll still be able to buy sausages made with real flesh in 50 years, just that between now and then alternatives will emerge that are tastier, healthier, and cheaper.

Steam trains still exist but you don't drive one to work every day because they're shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was responding to a post advocating for letting the breed die out. Just. Look. Up. I geuss?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That's not what that comment says.