Once we’ve learned to grow meat in vats, the optimum meat to grow – the one that’s the best fit to our nutritional needs – is us.
And if you’re worried about contamination and disease, the way some people insist on blood transfusions of only their own blood, the ideal donor of the starter culture for you is you.
So perhaps in the future we’ll see a row of vats in the kitchen, labeled “Dad,” “Mom,” “Junior,” and “Sis.” After all that, it’s only logical for the family to use their own lawn, shrubs, and table scraps to fuel the vats, perhaps powered by solar cells on the roof. In a certain sense, the vats will be “external stomachs” that preprocess your vegetarian diet of grass clippings so that you can eat (very) local.
