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Old 06-20-2019, 09:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I read about this in a sci-fi novel in the 1950s, according to Wikipedia* possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants.

To achieve that level, they will have to move from self-organized steak medallions to a mass of muscle tissue in a vat that they just slice fillets off of as it grows.

The cannibalism question is the reducto ad absurdum.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat#In_fiction
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