New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000

Italy bans cultivated meat products::New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000

  • jittery3291@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    I disagree with that statement generally, but anyway, you can’t catch cancer. You can catch a disease that causes cancer, but eating cancer itself wouldn’t give you cancer. You can however catch prion disease… And these can live in real flesh/meat you get from a shop.

    Also, there will be ground up cancer in processed meat. I guarantee it. You don’t think farm animals get cancer?

    • Quereller@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Transmissible cancers do exist in animal kingdom. (Tasmanian devils for example). So caution is justified.

      However, as far as I know, synthetic meat would be made out of muscle cells which are not immortalized.

      Transmissible cancer

      • jittery3291@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Christ. New horrors beyond my imagination.

        Still, my point stands that there are already risks to animal agriculture. Tasmanian devil cancers don’t make this a no go IMO.

        (I am aware that’s not what you are suggesting)

      • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I would imagine synthetic meat would be strictly regulated anyway. According to the article OP linked, there’s only two companies in the US that have been approved to make synthetic meat.

        • Quereller@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I am not so into synthetic meat ;-) So this is all speculation from my side. You can grow these cells for many cell divisions just not forever. So you keep a master stock of an early generation in the deep freezer (maybe 1000 vials). Then thaw one vial and expand the cells. Maybe you create a secondary derived stock. If they are old, thaw a fresh vial etc. If the/master stock is used up. Then you need to generate a new one.

          P.s. regarding the transmissible cancer cells. I don’t think it would happen likely. I think the cells need to loose the MHC gene/protein for this. Just wanted to tell that it exists.

          P.p.s I would be much more worried by viruses/ mycoplasma unknowingly infecting the cell culture. On the other hand farm animals are sick all the time too.