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I’m in San Francisco, at an Italian joint just south of Golden Gate Park, enjoying meatballs and bacon not made of meat in the traditional sense but of plants mixed with “cultivated” pork fat. Dawn, you see, donated a small sample of fat, which a company called Mission Barns got to proliferate in devices called bioreactors by providing nutrients like carbohydrates, amino acids, and vitamins—essentially replicating the conditions in her body. Because so much of the flavor of pork and other meats comes from the animal’s fat, Mission Barns can create products like sausages and salami with plants but make them taste darn near like sausages and salami.

I’ve been struggling to describe the experience, because cultivated meat short-circuits my brain—my mouth thinks I’m eating a real pork meatball, but my brain knows that it’s fundamentally different and that Dawn (pictured above) didn’t have to die for it. This is the best I’ve come up with: It’s Diet Meat. Just as Diet Coke is an approximation of the real thing, so too are cultivated meatballs. They simply taste a bit less meaty, at least to my tongue. Which is understandable, as the only animal product in this food is the bioreactor-grown fat.

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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

One day they’ll breed an animal that makes it clear it wants to be eaten.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 15 hours ago

So a show like that. Pig was basically wolverine and was prideful it was going to save humanity through its suffering. However, its meat was disgusting so no one wanted to eat turning the poor thing evil cursing humanity for rejecting his salvation.

One of the more emotional roller coasters experiences I seen for villian 🤣.

[–] OZFive@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ameglian_Major_Cow

the Cow was the Dish of the Day at Milliways, which arrived when Zaphod Beeblebrox (accompanied by Arthur, Ford, and Trillian) requested to 'meet the meat'. It was described as a large dairy animal, a "large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type." It was said to have large watery eyes, as well as small horns and what might have been an ingratiating smile on its lips. The creature seems peaceful and at ease, and at one point is described to have "mooed."

The creature offers Zaphod and his party his shoulder, braised in a white wine sauce, then goes on to offer other parts of its body, having worked hard to fatten itself up through force-feeding itself for months. Eventually, after Arthur and Trillian have expressed their shock and Ford has expressed his disinterest, Zaphod requests four rare steaks and the Dish of the Day goes off to shoot himself, telling Arthur not to worry, as he says "I'll be very humane."[1]

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Indeed what I was referencing.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Okja kind of has similar themes about a fictional animal bred for food.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Beyond Lies the Wub