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Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights the Cell-Cultured Product
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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And how can the salmon give free, prior, informed consent for this? This is still exploitation. This is not vegan.
EDIT: This could be done ethically if the company collected still-living cells from the bodies of recently deceased salmon in spawning season or if they collected genetic material from male gametes that did not end up fertilising an egg, but I've not found anything to suggest that this company does it this way.
Consent-wise, would a side-to-side tail-waggle count as a Yes or a No?
I can't tell if this is a serious question, but I don't know enough about salmon to answer it, or even whether there would be a conclusive answer.
EDIT: And that was kind of the point. I don't know whether it would even be possible for a salmon to consent to this sort of thing.