The saying “you are what you eat” may soon become a lot more
literal.
A “DIY meal kit” for growing steaks made from human cells was
recently nominated for “design of the year” by the London-based
Design Museum.
Named the Ouroboros Steak after the circular symbol of a snake
eating itself tail-first, the hypothetical kit would come with
everything one needs to use their own cells to grow miniature
human meat steaks.
“People think that eating oneself is cannibalism, which
technically this is not," Grace Knight, one of the designers,
told Dezeen magazine.
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Before you go running for your wallet, know this isn’t a product
available to buy. It was created by scientist Andrew Pelling,
artist Orkan Telhan and Knight, an industrial designer, on
commission by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for an exhibit last
year.
“Growing yourself ensures that you and your loved ones always
know the origin of your food, how it has been raised and that
its cells were acquired ethically and consensually,” a website
for the imagined product states.
The project was made as a critique of the lab-grown meat
industry, which the designers told Dezeen magazine is not
actually as animal-friendly as one might expect. Lab-grown meat
relies on fetal bovine serum for animal cell cultures, though
some companies have claimed to have found alternatives. FBS is
made from calf fetus blood after pregnant cows are slaughtered.
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Lab-grown meat has not yet been approved for human consumption,
though some products could hit store shelves in the next few
years.
“As the lab-grown meat industry is developing rapidly, it is
important to develop designs that expose some of its underlying
constraints in order to see beyond the hype,” Pelling told
Dezeen.
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Growing an Ouroboros Steak would take about three months using
cells taken from inside your cheek, the magazine reported. For
the collection of sample steaks on display in the museum, the
team used human cell cultures purchased from the American Tissue
Culture Collection and grew them with donated blood that expired
and would have otherwise been destroyed. They preserved the
final products in resin.
“Expired human blood is a waste material in the medical system
and is cheaper and more sustainable than FBS, but culturally
less-accepted,” Knight told Dezeen.
Comments:
narivaboy12
3 hours ago
We are no longer for what we were created to be. Throughout the
years we have evolved slowly into the lowest form of creation.
We are full of every despicable virtue and empty of every
wholesome quality we humans were entrusted with. Our strengths
became our weaknesses and our ambitions have become our
destruction. Where do we go from here? Extinction.
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