Would you eat a self burger?

Would you eat a burger grown from a human muscle cell? Would you rather use your own cell or someone else’s? What does the future of lab-grown meat illuminate about neuroscience, our calculations of morality, and whether your grandchildren will have a different answer? What does any of this have to do with endangered species, the sacred versus the profane, brain plasticity, moral positioning, social belonging, stepping on the boundary between mental categories, flesh copyrights, and the future of personhood?

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Sergelidis D. Lab grown meat: the future sustainable alternative to meat or a novel functional food. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research. 2019 Apr 2;17(1):12440-4.

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