Not just a big one, although I guess it’d be pretty chunky. But a meatball made from actual mammoth mince. Which is a thing now that scientists have started messing around with powers beyond their control.
From the Graun
Vow worked with Prof Ernst Wolvetang, at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering at the University of Queensland, to create the mammoth muscle protein. His team took the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a key muscle protein in giving meat its flavour, and filled in the few gaps using elephant DNA.
This sequence was placed in myoblast stem cells from a sheep, which replicated to grow to the 20bn cells subsequently used by the company to grow the mammoth meat.
Of course, other scientists, with no sense of adventure at all, say we shouldn’t eat any of this lab grown mammoth meatball until we understand what ancient pathogens it might contain.
But I call that girlyman chicken-talk!
Just gimme the fucking mastodon burger now. I’ll bet the protein density is off the fucking scale!
so just a question for curiosities sake. If we grew human flesh in a lab would it be ethical or not to munch on that? I mean to add: asking for a friend.
hahaha "i only eat meat that i've grown from myself". Although if you had deficiencies in your body you wouldnt be getting it from an outside source so it would be a feedback loop. Posh dinner parties: "the mains tonight sir are a medium rare olympic gold medalist from the 1960's, with a sauteed serving of marilyn monroe" . . . . . . oh geez this is getting dark.
When I saw this yesterday I immediately asked a colleague if this was his client as it’s the sort of thing he’d encourage, and received an affirmative response.
Mammoth, Elephant, Sheep. Is this the equivalent of a Stone Age Turducken.
so just a question for curiosities sake. If we grew human flesh in a lab would it be ethical or not to munch on that? I mean to add: asking for a friend.
What if your own cells were the source?
hahaha "i only eat meat that i've grown from myself". Although if you had deficiencies in your body you wouldnt be getting it from an outside source so it would be a feedback loop. Posh dinner parties: "the mains tonight sir are a medium rare olympic gold medalist from the 1960's, with a sauteed serving of marilyn monroe" . . . . . . oh geez this is getting dark.
When I saw this yesterday I immediately asked a colleague if this was his client as it’s the sort of thing he’d encourage, and received an affirmative response.
This is pretty brill.
Reminds me of why didn't Jurassic Park explore bronto burgers and scrambled T- Rex eggs? Fred and Barney would concur.
Of course, don’t forget the obligatory three veg
But only 30g of Mastodon meatball. Gotta limit that protein intake!
Oh god how long until Bro-sphere is hocking mastodon meat based supplements?
Can't we just get some mammothy goodness out of the melting permafrost?