I was talking to my parents about lab grown meat and I told them how the future is lab grown meant and how nothing has to suffer to make it. However I got stumped when it comes to the harvesting stem cells part. For humans I know embryos are where stem cells are usually harvested from (plz correct me if I’m wrong), so I’m wondering does an animal have to die to harvest the stem cells?
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Human stem cells can be harvested from a baby’s umbilical cord and placental blood, and also apparently from milk teeth. So I think that an animals death would not be strictly necessary. Although i don’t know how it’s done in practice for lab grown meat.
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