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

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[+] Chip_Rat -17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Except for the pigs raised for stem cells? Which I think somehow is an even more distopian concept.... Maybe just a different flavour.

Note: I am actually in the comments looking for the answer to my question "how many stem cells?". Like per lb or whatever... What's the ratio?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The article answers your question

It involves nothing more than pulling a single cell once from a pig without causing harm.

[–] Chip_Rat 15 points 9 months ago

Thank you. I read the article, I swear, before posting. (Literally stopped what I was typing after I read my own statement "looking in the comments") Not sure how I missed that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

The whole "stem cells from a fetus" thing certain groups try to spread is false. Technically stems cells can come from a fetus, but they generally don't. We even have methods to turn regular cells into stem cells I'm pretty sure. This doesn't do anything more than taking cell(s) from a pig one time and they can be grown on their own potentially forever. No other pig needs to be involved.