Food restrictions

[ewx]

[Poll #1241007]

(I'm asking about the nature of the substance, not the process that led to it: I'm not asking whether you'll eat battery chickens or baby-killing coffee.)

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Presumably deliberately cultured human tissue would be carefully kept free of nasties...

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they'd do their best, but considering the safety precautions we have to observe when dealing with HeLa cells (a human cell line used in labs), I'd still worry. If a retrovirus or something got into one batch, and a cell in that batch also happened to develop cancer-like properties, contact with even a few cells could, theoretically, give people cancer by spreading the dodgy cancer-causing DNA into the unwitting manburger consumer via their mouth lining or something. :(

And stuff like CJD caused by wrongly-folded proteins would be really hard to prevent, I suspect.