Inspired by this.

Forget about what you have eaten. Synthetic meat is a very real possibility, and a pretty near one at that. Imagine, any animal we have a DNA sample for: a nice juicy slab of it, grown in a lab and made available to consumers. Doesn't matter if the animal is endangered or overfished or even if it's extinct, so long as we have the genetic instructions on how to grow it.

(Forget about whether or not you would eat synthetic meat in the first place. Eventually, you or your descendants may have to!)

For the purposes of this thread, what animal would be at the top of your list? Mammoth? Tiger? Toucan? Human?

Vegetarians: would you eat synthetic meat? It's 100% cruelty-free!

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Dinosaur.

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Do we have a genetic sample of a dinosaur somewhere? Outside of Crichton novels, I mean.

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yes but its being kept hush hush.
"He declined to answer questions relating to the dinosaur rumours and the Middle East."

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Perhaps if we advance far enough (assuming we secretly have not already), it can be possible to do a DNA reversal of a modern descendant in order to formulate some sort of genetic map of the dinosaurs. It's speculation of course, at least from my perspective.

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Mammoth seems like an interesting choice.

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several times manoths have thawed out of a pile of basically frozen mud and by the time researchers got there the thing had been scavenged by modern animals and started to rot. but it sounds like the animals that find it first find meat.

Some researchers thought about but decided not to eat one they found really intact in 1903(out of supplies, eating the pack animals, meat in the center that was still frozen solid looked good...but again by the time humans found out and/or reached it it stank like hell because the outerbits were thawed already and rotted off into goo), and some other researchers did eat a comparably frozen and while more recent still ridiculously old bison they found. but the freezing process tends to dessicated the meat too so it had to be stewed and wasn't so good.

edit- actually it sounds like some russian guy tried mammoth but even basically frozen jerky it was basically rotten so he spit it out

editedit- An annual dinner of Garth: The Explorers Club in 1951 did eat it apparently,

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Yes?

edit: oops. forgot that I'm using my second name on steamgift. nvm.

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a large steak made out of any animal which is usually small or hard to eat, such as prawns.
also whale and some large felines.

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That was actually what I was thinking, is a giant squirrel steak or something else from a tiny creature.

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Mmmm, a giant shrimp steak sounds really good. As long as I don't think about how it's a giant shrimp.

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I want to try insects but they're a bit hard to find in the Western world. (ones that are safe to eat that is)

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grab a pack of mealworms at any baitshop or birdfeed store. you can get live or freeze dried.

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Where are you? In Mexico theres quite a few different things available. not sure how well they'd ship

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a bulbasaur

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A frog.

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We can eat frogs though O_o

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It's what we'd consider eating. Crysis considers Frog I guess.

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Oh, Crysis! Frog is good. Eat it ^_^

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Oh really? Will try it out one day then :D

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Yeah, it tastes very similar to rabbit, which tastes like chicken.

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Yeah, I've had frogs legs before. They were nice. Kinda like eating really tiny chicken legs.

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female breasts i guess?

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^^^

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a human

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I want a patty made from ground up mash of every animal that might eat me proportioned by relative probability(scavengers don't count, needs to be a predator, and stealing blood isn't eating so no bugs)

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I'm veggie and I'm not sure I would just for personal health reasons.
And it's very unlikely this would be cost effective for descendants to do this compared to eating beans or soya

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Suxs to be you

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Yeah, I must hate myself for doing what i've chosen to do. Woe is me.

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I thought veggie was you?

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wouldnt it be, Whey is me?

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Coelacanth meat, I'm pretty sure it imbues you with magical powers

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People. I'm pretty sure I'd taste good.

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Yeah, I'd be kinda curious as to what I taste like.

This all kinda reminds me of the Iain M Banks short story "The State Of The Art". An advanced humanoid culture finds Earth and, part way through the story, they use DNA from various world leaders to vat grow meat for a party. They could have fried Ghandi or Lincon steaks.

Mmmmm, Margret Thatcher Haggis. That'd be intresting.

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I'm not very adventurous when it comes to food, but for me it's goat / lamb.

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Capybara

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A unicorn

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I'd like a rack of brontosaurus ribs, please.

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T-rex! mhu...mhu...mhuahahahahahhaaa >:D

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As a Vegetarian(Well I eat some seafood but thats a whole other story so pescatarian or whatever) I would not, reason: Honestly meat grosses me out besides the whole killing animals thing, on top of that I really am against all this modified food, GMO's and now this, no fucking thanks mad scientist.

:-/

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I'm not saying some of it isn't shady (thanks, Monsanto,) but these modified foods have saved millions of lives by allowing food to grow when and where it otherwise wouldn't have been able to (thanks, Norman Borlaug!)

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My take is Monsanto is probably gonna wind up killing or making more sick then it saves...what they do is sick and unhealthy. Still unsure how anyone can trust a company that made agent orange among other deadly chemicals....or research into things like Terminator seeds, I mean come on thats just plain evil...plus they are destroying actually farmers, you know the ones that grow natural good for you food, also the cross pollination is a big issue.

I think food should be natural and I get that in some areas it might have helped but honestly if all of us fucked up countries stopped dicking each other and causing wars, spending billions on weapons, etc...I feel like we would be able to do more with the whole starving population issue.

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Pudge from dota 2

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I think i would try some synthetic human meat, i read that it tastes like pig or cow meat.

And I'd love to eat T-rex meat.

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Apparently it taste like really high quality meat, people that were served it said it was the best burger they ever ate, scary right? I remember reading an article in my paper years back, some restaurant owner was killing people and disposing of the bodies by making tasty burgers, people loved them and were horrified when they fpund out what it was....

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lol

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Soylent Red or Yellow

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