Company Wants to Make Food Out of Celebrity Flesh

ClovenHoof

This is a good one for the Richard Dawkins 'all science is infallible' brigade to champion as 'good science' and reason. We can expect comments along th lines of 'well people were once scared of sailing too far west as they thought the world was flat..." etc, etc. Love the 'Global Warming' invocation to get the shower in on this too.

"At the moment, our primary goal is to provoke discussion and debate around topics of bioethics and celebrity culture," said Martin from the BiteLabs team. He says he wishes to remain anonymous at this time, due to the controversy surrounding the focus of the company. "We see inefficiencies, environmental hazards, and ethical problems in the world’s food production and distribution. There are exciting opportunities to disrupt these industries while opening new ways to consume celebrity culture."

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-bitelabs-make-salami-celebrity-tissue-samples-20140304,0,438753.story#ixzz2vfoR6Beh

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-bitelabs-make-salami-celebrity-tissue-samples-20140304,0,438753.story#axzz2vawiWKHw

shopaholic01

I wouldn't say no to Jake Gyllenhaals' test tube meat.

Tiddlypeeps

Wow.... that's more than a little disturbing

I am pie

Because "good scientists" are always up for a bit of canniablism.

Anyway, build it high and wide that strawman, see who is biting.

shruikan2553

ClovenHoof wrote: »

This is a good one for the Richard Dawkins 'all science is infallible' brigade to champion as 'good science' and reason. We can expect comments along th lines of 'well people were once scared of sailing too far west as they thought the world was flat..." etc, etc. Love the 'Global Warming' invocation to get the shower in on this too.



http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-bitelabs-make-salami-celebrity-tissue-samples-20140304,0,438753.story#axzz2vawiWKHw

What the hell are you talking about? You put a link about something and then rant about Dawkins. Is he working on this or something?

Isnt there laws about cannibalism?

Bipolar Joe

I'm pretty sure there was a thread on this already.

Also:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2099556/

mike65

Disappointed this company is not German

Antar Bolaeisk

Soylent Green here we come!

Duggy747

Agenda thread has agenda

Robbo

I'll stick to my Special Stuff from Hilary Briss' butchers shop.

kowloon

shopaholic01 wrote: »

I wouldn't say no to Jake Gyllenhaals' test tube meat.

I heard it's not juicy and delicious when it's no longer attached.

Duggy747

shopaholic01 wrote: »

I wouldn't say no to Jake Gyllenhaals' test tube meat.

Jake Gyllenhaal hot dog in Heath Ledger buns

Nemeses

Duggy747 wrote: »

Jake Gyllenhaal hot dog in Heath Ledger buns

Be a bit soggy wouldn't it?

ScumLord

ClovenHoof wrote: »

This is a good one for the Richard Dawkins 'all science is infallible' brigade to champion as 'good science' and reason.

I don't think Dawkins has ever said all science is infallible, it would be unscientific to say such a thing. While Science would allow us to do this it would also tell us eating human flesh would have all sort of negative health effects for the person eating it.

The Diabolical Monocle

ClovenHoof wrote: »

This is a good one for the Richard Dawkins 'all science is infallible' brigade to champion as 'good science' and reason. We can expect comments along th lines of 'well people were once scared of sailing too far west as they thought the world was flat..." etc, etc. Love the 'Global Warming' invocation to get the shower in on this too.



http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-bitelabs-make-salami-celebrity-tissue-samples-20140304,0,438753.story#axzz2vawiWKHw

Now Im no fan of the Dicky Dawkins culture but what you've done here is really quite weird.

Rusting shopping trolleys ? - lets see them Dawkinites justify that one.
Chewing gum up 2c ? - I suppose they have an answer for that too.

shopaholic01

kowloon wrote: »

I heard it's not juicy and delicious when it's no longer attached.

Duggy747 wrote: »

Jake Gyllenhaal hot dog in Heath Ledger buns

Nemeses wrote: »

Be a bit soggy wouldn't it?

It'll do! :pac:

Duggy747

Nemeses wrote: »

Be a bit soggy wouldn't it?

Depends on how much special sauce one would want to fill their bun with, I'd imagine.

kowloon

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't think Dawkins has ever said all science is infallible, it would be unscientific to say such a thing. While Science would allow us to do this it would also tell us eating human flesh would have all sort of negative health effects for the person eating it.

But but but, if it sounds 'sciency' and is bad then science is bad, right? And Dawkins is the high priest of science. Persecute the heretic!

The Diabolical Monocle

How much to eat Salma Hayeks ass ??

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

ClovenHoof wrote: »

This is a good one for the Richard Dawkins 'all science is infallible' brigade to champion as 'good science' and reason. We can expect comments along th lines of 'well people were once scared of sailing too far west as they thought the world was flat..." etc, etc. Love the 'Global Warming' invocation to get the shower in on this too.



http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-bitelabs-make-salami-celebrity-tissue-samples-20140304,0,438753.story#axzz2vawiWKHw

Sounds a bit like a creationist argument: let's start with the conclusion and see what we can dig up to pass as evidence.

ClovenHoof

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Sounds a bit like a creationist argument: let's start with the conclusion and see what we can dig up to pass as evidence.

Here we go, I am a Jebus Freak if I do not adore Dawkins.

Anyway, it is not so much Dawkins but the ex-Catholics who read one of his books and convert their former Catholic Zeal into an Atheist Zeal. Most of them know shag all about Science beyond the Discovery Channel and would defend the Nazi experiments if they were around in the 1940's.

If someone came along and said this is science gone nuts, they would be called Creationists by people like you.

Life was easier when you mauled your rosary beads in front of the Child of Prague. Wasn't it? Your old team never asked much of you except faith. Eh?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Here we go, I am a Jebus Freak if I do not adore Dawkins.

Anyway, it is not so much Dawkins but the ex-Catholics who read one of his books and convert their former Catholic Zeal into an Atheist Zeal. Most of them know shag all about Science beyond the Discovery Channel and would defend the Nazi experiments if they were around in the 1940's.

If someone came along and said this is science gone nuts, they would be called Creationists by people like you.

Life was easier when you mauled your rosary beads in front of the Child of Prague. Wasn't it? Your old team never asked much of you except faith. Eh?

Jury's still out to be fair, but when you open with with "this is a good one for the Richard Dawkins 'all science is infallible' brigade to champion as 'good science' and reason." you're not doing your point any favours.

Anyway, back on topic. I never mentioned Jesus. I was refering to what's called "confirmation bias". It's not specific to religion, I just used the creationist angle as an example. People who watch Fox News for evidence that America's rich are beign persucuted are exactly the same.

Furthermore, there is the little or no connection between Dawkins, Caholicism, Athiesm or whatever and the story you linked to. Or if there was, you didn't explain it very well.

stmol32

ClovenHoof wrote: »

....'well people were once scared of sailing too far west as they thought the world was flat...

No body ever really believed this.
If you get this fact wrong I have to question your other statements,
I don't think you should be supporting eating human meat.

ScumLord

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Here we go, I am a Jebus Freak if I do not adore Dawkins.

Why do you have to go to extremes and link completely unrelated issues? No ones saying you have to adore Dawkins but what has he got to do with a company that wants to make artificial meat out of celebrity DNA?

Most of them know shag all about Science beyond the Discovery Channel and would defend the Nazi experiments if they were around in the 1940's.

Outside of their eugenics and race related pseudo science that Hitler and his cronies promoted to try and confirm all their bizarre biases against people they saw as beneath them the scientific work the Nazi's did was ground breaking, they practically invented modern warfare, humanities space program, jet planes. They did have ground breaking science but that doesn't mean we have to like what they did or agree with their methods. Just like the Romans set the standard for civilization despite being pretty horrible people.

smcgiff

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Soylent Green here we come!

Celebrity Soylent Green.

That's a game show I might actually watch.

mike65

Not too mention da Brits and their gravity, railways and www.

Friend Computer

You'd probably get a better reaction over at A&A, you know. I mean it's obvious that's what your angle here is so why not go for gold instead of settling for the easiest board to do this on?

PopePalpatine

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Life was easier when you mauled your rosary beads in front of the Child of Prague. Wasn't it? Your old team never asked much of you except faith. Eh?

Except when it comes to gay marriage, contraception, abortion, homo/bisexuality, extramarital sex, being able to go to a school not controlled by a strict Catholic "ethos" (as ~95% of schools in Ireland are) etc.

Bipolar Joe

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Here we go, I am a Jebus Freak if I do not adore Dawkins.

Anyway, it is not so much Dawkins but the ex-Catholics who read one of his books and convert their former Catholic Zeal into an Atheist Zeal. Most of them know shag all about Science beyond the Discovery Channel and would defend the Nazi experiments if they were around in the 1940's.

If someone came along and said this is science gone nuts, they would be called Creationists by people like you.

Life was easier when you mauled your rosary beads in front of the Child of Prague. Wasn't it? Your old team never asked much of you except faith. Eh?

Internet law says you just lost the argument.

Knasher

Thread title is misleading, I expected a thread about a company who wants to make food out of celebrity flesh, but all I got was a thread about how the OP dislikes atheists.

smcgiff

Knasher wrote: »

Thread title is misleading, I expected a thread about a company who wants to make food out of celebrity flesh, but all I got was a thread about how the OP dislikes atheists.

At least you were able to make something out of what he posted. That's more than I managed.

rubadub

bastards stole my idea. This is a thread from 2012 in the vegan forum about lab grown meat.

rubadub wrote: »

They could have celebrity meats, I could see myself tucking into a fillet of Kelly Brook curry, only for my mate to then tell me it was really Brian Cowens arse :pac:

Human meat is meant to taste like pork.

shruikan2553

Move this over the A&A and we'll turn it into celebrity biscuits.

Capt'n Midnight

Idiots.

Mad cow disease all over again if you recycle food.

And even mad cow disease was Kuru all over again and that was completely unforgivable as Kuru was well known as an incurable disease in humans with a fatality rate of 100% and only one transmission method.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/kuru/kuru.htm

There were no treatments that could control or cure kuru, other than discouraging the practice of cannibalism. Currently, there are no cures or treatments for any of the other TSE diseases.

anyway here's the biomass if you want to figure out how much "food" is wasted
https://xkcd.com/1338/

seamus

Yep, eating human meat is bad for humans. Gives you diseases and stuff.

Science, bitch.