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Elias_The_Thief t1_je8fpt9 wrote

Reply to comment by FamiGami in Giant meatball with woolly mammoth DNA unveiled by cultured meat startup by sleepysnowboarder

That's why he used the word synthesize.

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FamiGami t1_jea6334 wrote

Again, the crux here is the word animal. It isn’t synthesize from an animal at all. It’s from the dna of an animal. The resulting meat is an approximation and wouldn’t remotely resemble the meat from a living, grazing animal. Literally the difference between spam and a steak.

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Elias_The_Thief t1_jeahuhc wrote

It doesn't really matter how good or bad it is, it is still a synthetic attempt at creating that meat. The comment you responded to never said from an animal. They said 'synthesize the meat of extinct animals'. You're arguing against a point that was never made.

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FamiGami t1_jecx9j9 wrote

The point is whether it is meat at all if there is no animal. It’s synthetic by definition hence it cannot be meat by definition.

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Revrak t1_jeasn9l wrote

You mixed “of the animal” with “from the animal” you’re the only one using the latter

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FamiGami t1_jecxd18 wrote

It is neither of nor from the animal - there is no animal. Other commenters have agreed to as much. It’s synthetic hence it is not meat.

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Revrak t1_jecyxrd wrote

you seem to have a different understanding of what makes something part of a group ie meat or not meat.

once it's a piece of meat the distinction has no difference. if it was not meat you'd be able to make a distinction.

if we were able to synthesize human organs they would not be human organs to you because they did not originate from a human. beyond the use there is little difference between that example and synthesized muscles of cattle or whatever.

You might have a point if you argued that it's not authentic because it lacks somethig present in "real" meat. but even then it might be and advantage (eg less veins or less fascia in the tissues to make it tender)

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FamiGami t1_jeewit3 wrote

I did make that point. I already pointed out that there was no grazing animal, no input of naturally ingested vitamins and material, not natural exercising of the muscle, no “life experience”. There was no animal so it is not meat. It is a synthetic simulation of meat. That is all.

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