Cancer is a condition that afflicts a living animal. Cell cultures created in a lab can't be "cancer". They are genetically engineered to serve their purpose, which is totally independent of function within a living organism.
You're not going to "catch cancer" by eating lab grown beef muscle tissue.
I'd like to remind you that there is a sexually transmissable cancer among canines. It's not a virus that causes cancer, it IS cancer - a line of living cells from a long, long dead male canine that are functionally immortal and spread from one dog to another.
This is very interesting. I hadn't heard that before but apparently there are 2 other examples of this in mammals (a type of hamster and Tasmanian devils). That said, there are at least 2 important differences: (1) the precancerous cells in the fake meat (which I have no desire to eat) aren't human cells and my understanding is you can't "catch" cancer from the cells of a different species; (2) in terms of something ending up in your body, my understanding is that the stomach is the safest place for it to enter by a massive margin. Actual meat has plenty of potential undesirable stuff in it as well (like fecal matter) that wouldn't be in fake meat but that your stomach generally handles.
EDIT: The Bloomberg article that forms the basis of this Blaze article is significantly more interesting.
(1) the precancerous cells in the fake meat (which I have no desire to eat) aren't human cells and my understanding is you can't "catch" cancer from the cells of a different species
That's correct. Think about how much trouble we have getting the human body to not kill a donated organ from another human - if the human immune system would just look the other way when you add a piece of cow then we wouldn't have that problem.
On the other hand, it is an extra reason to shoot any degenerate who wants to enable "ethical cannibalism" using vat-grown human meat.
Cancer is a condition that afflicts a living animal. Cell cultures created in a lab can't be "cancer". They are genetically engineered to serve their purpose, which is totally independent of function within a living organism.
You're not going to "catch cancer" by eating lab grown beef muscle tissue.
I'd like to remind you that there is a sexually transmissable cancer among canines. It's not a virus that causes cancer, it IS cancer - a line of living cells from a long, long dead male canine that are functionally immortal and spread from one dog to another.
This is very interesting. I hadn't heard that before but apparently there are 2 other examples of this in mammals (a type of hamster and Tasmanian devils). That said, there are at least 2 important differences: (1) the precancerous cells in the fake meat (which I have no desire to eat) aren't human cells and my understanding is you can't "catch" cancer from the cells of a different species; (2) in terms of something ending up in your body, my understanding is that the stomach is the safest place for it to enter by a massive margin. Actual meat has plenty of potential undesirable stuff in it as well (like fecal matter) that wouldn't be in fake meat but that your stomach generally handles.
EDIT: The Bloomberg article that forms the basis of this Blaze article is significantly more interesting.
https://archive.is/s7HYF
That's correct. Think about how much trouble we have getting the human body to not kill a donated organ from another human - if the human immune system would just look the other way when you add a piece of cow then we wouldn't have that problem.
On the other hand, it is an extra reason to shoot any degenerate who wants to enable "ethical cannibalism" using vat-grown human meat.