Ouroboros Steak it is not cannibalism. Or if? According to its creators, raising meat from your cells in a kit does not imply that you resemble Hannibal lechter. It is all part of a protest related to the cultured meat in laboratory. But is this for sale? What does "Ouroboros" mean? Read on to find out.
What is Ouroboros Steak?
When we thought we had seen it all, it comes Ouroboros Steak. It is not something new, but the fruit of a research work commissioned by the Philadelphia museum of art en 2020. He wanted to focus on the problems derived from the meat industry. The result was a Kit by which a person removes cells from inside the cheek. After this step, get them to grow in the form of a fillet in the blood discarded from hospitals. So this would be a kind of placenta.
It is worth mentioning that it is not for sale. Its creators conceived it as a means to make the public think. They argued that cell-raised meat is not as safe as it sounds. They emphasize that the call grows fetal bovine serum comes from the blood of calf fetuses after their pregnant mothers are sacrificed by the industry. The solution they found: discarded human blood of the health system. Cheaper, more abundant and without having to cut a life.
It is on sale?
Ouroboros Steak kit was named Design of the Year by the Design Museum de London. This is something hypothetical raised for exhibitions, so no one has considered its large-scale manufacture. Its creators have repeated on more than one occasion that "Technically not cannibalism". For now, you can rule out extracting your cells and transforming them into fillets in the three months that the kit promises.
But why is it called Ouroboros Steak? This complicated word refers to a metaphor. You surely know the sign of a snake that eats itself through the queue. Well that's the Ouroboros (uroboros in Spanish)! Would you eat meat grown from your own cells? The idea would attract the most curious morbid, but… would he really be able to gain the trust of the general population? The world of laboratory meat has a long way to go.
