EAT CELEBRITY MEAT

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It may be pure coincidence, and of course the odds are high that it's coincidence... but whoever is behind the Bitelabs site knows what they're doing, there are no loose ends I have found tying anyone to it. Admittedly I haven't spent that long looking.

Plus this:

He added: "Each salami will have roughly 30 percent celebrity meat and 40 percent lab-grown animal meats (we're currently looking into ostrich and venison but pork and beef are more popular in our early research). The rest will consist of fats and spices. This break-down comes from consultation with expert food designers and chefs."

Kevin also admitted to being inspired by Google (aren't we all?) and its edifying Google burger.

http://www.cnet.com/news/lab-making-salami-out-of-jennifer-lawrence/

Good lead, Net!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The idea is definitely satirical: Vice posits that the people behind Bite Labs might be an activist group like PETA, a very ambitious prankster, or even a real synthetic meat lab that's just trying to get publicity. But they're definitely committed to the bit. Vice got in touch with the company's mysterious representative, known only as "Kevin," who they describe as someone "who'd internalized Silicon Valley's vernacular, but didn't overtly appear to be mocking it." While Bite Labs has yet to produce celebrity meat, Kevin told them, they're "100 percent serious in prompting widespread discussion about bioethics, lab-grown meats, and celebrity culture—this is very important to us." He explained:

Our team is deeply interested in food-culture, celebrity & media as well as thinking about the future. Other than highlighting bioethical issues, we are also interested in the way celebrity culture is consumed and hope that there is some kind of back-handed commentary on that. To develop Celebrity Meat, we're working with a group of bio-engineers and food designers, most of which have requested to remain anonymous due to the controversial nature of the product.

As for our current campaign, we are hoping to generate celebrity interest and involvement so that we can develop a prototype with celebrity meat. In-vitro meat has the potential to revolutionize the meat industry, with both environmental, animal rights, and eventually economic benefits. We hope that our campaigning efforts will confront people with the very real possibility of a lab-grown meat future.

Right now, they're getting attention by harassing celebrities on Twitter, asking them if they'll be salami. In the future, who knows?

http://everythingaboutstemcells.com/tag/bite-labs/

And zero buzz between breaking and now, six months later. There is zero question in my mind about celebrity meat being a legit product... it's not... but a publicity stunt for a company developing vat meat? Absolutely plausible.

Here are our two primary contenders:

http://culturedbeef.net
http://modernmeadow.com/

[P3nT4gR4m]

The idea is definitely satirical: Vice posits that the people behind Bite Labs might be an activist group like PETA, a very ambitious prankster, or even a real synthetic meat lab that's just trying to get publicity. But they're definitely committed to the bit. Vice got in touch with the company's mysterious representative, known only as "Kevin," who they describe as someone "who'd internalized Silicon Valley's vernacular, but didn't overtly appear to be mocking it." While Bite Labs has yet to produce celebrity meat, Kevin told them, they're "100 percent serious in prompting widespread discussion about bioethics, lab-grown meats, and celebrity culture—this is very important to us." He explained:

Our team is deeply interested in food-culture, celebrity & media as well as thinking about the future. Other than highlighting bioethical issues, we are also interested in the way celebrity culture is consumed and hope that there is some kind of back-handed commentary on that. To develop Celebrity Meat, we're working with a group of bio-engineers and food designers, most of which have requested to remain anonymous due to the controversial nature of the product.

As for our current campaign, we are hoping to generate celebrity interest and involvement so that we can develop a prototype with celebrity meat. In-vitro meat has the potential to revolutionize the meat industry, with both environmental, animal rights, and eventually economic benefits. We hope that our campaigning efforts will confront people with the very real possibility of a lab-grown meat future.

Right now, they're getting attention by harassing celebrities on Twitter, asking them if they'll be salami. In the future, who knows?

http://everythingaboutstemcells.com/tag/bite-labs/

And zero buzz between breaking and now, six months later. There is zero question in my mind about celebrity meat being a legit product... it's not... but a publicity stunt for a company developing vat meat? Absolutely plausible.

Here are our two primary contenders:

http://culturedbeef.net
http://modernmeadow.com/

Marketing that's hooked directly into the outrage gland. Powerful stuff! 

On a side note - I've heard the idea before that it was the cooking of meat that allowed humans to extract enough energy from our food to power our massive swollen brains. Something about it makes me wtf. Anyone know how accurate this notion is?

[The Johnny]

I vaguely recall that cooking increases energy efficiency, because less expenditure on metabolizing and digesting it, but thats a different part of the story...

Something about the human's omnivorous diet fomenting brain development, but then again, raccoons and cockroaches would be GENIUSES if that was the case (imagine rat's gigantic brain, go ahead, touch it).

I also heard this things about how natural drugs (bro) have helped develop (expand) the human brain.

But really, Im at the point where ive heard ALL SORTS OF THINGS and unless i personally research it throughly (say, some solid 50 hours at least) im just like "ok, it could be, but by fuck i have the time to say if its true or false" 

[P3nT4gR4m]

But really, Im at the point where ive heard ALL SORTS OF THINGS and unless i personally research it throughly (say, some solid 50 hours at least) im just like "ok, it could be, but by fuck i have the time to say if its true or false" 

Yeah, snap! I do like the idea that I could have a scientific basis for slagging off vegetarians, tho. Not that I have anything against vegetarians but, y'know, that odd time when you're trying to reduce some random punter to a quivering wreck just for shits and giggles and it just so happens their mammalian brain is starved for electricity... 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Seems vaguely topical

[LMNO]

Well, if people just want to fuck a rotting piece of cartilage, why bother with high technology? Just buy a bucket of chitlins!

Also known as "Thursday".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, if people just want to fuck a rotting piece of cartilage, why bother with high technology? Just buy a bucket of chitlins!

Also known as "Thursday".

[The Johnny]

But really, Im at the point where ive heard ALL SORTS OF THINGS and unless i personally research it throughly (say, some solid 50 hours at least) im just like "ok, it could be, but by fuck i have the time to say if its true or false" 

Yeah, snap! I do like the idea that I could have a scientific basis for slagging off vegetarians, tho. Not that I have anything against vegetarians but, y'know, that odd time when you're trying to reduce some random punter to a quivering wreck just for shits and giggles and it just so happens their mammalian brain is starved for electricity... 

One could argue that all the toxins and synthetics we consume in the garbage that we eat, in moderate ammounts, strenghtens our immune system.

Now go make a doctoral thesis about it and show me that im wrong.  (or that im right, for that matter  )

Seems vaguely topical

Can i eat it?

[P3nT4gR4m]

Bit Chewey

[The Johnny]

Good Sir, are you trying to seduce me?