The Science Uses DNA of Extinct Mammoth to Create Giant Meatball

It’s a story about a giant meatball designed by science from the genetically engineered flesh of dead creatures. Do you get it? I put a picture of Ron DeSantis because he’s a gigantic fat Italian, who is without any humanity, having been designed by political donors using the science of marketing, composed of the previously extinct Zionist-secular-conservative social libertarian war-mongering of Ronald Reagan. Get it? Sometimes I put these jokes in here and don’t explain them at all, and right now I decided to explain this joke, so that everyone can understand the kind of love that goes into this site, and how much I think about the layered commentary and the humor. 

What has science done…?

Reuters:

A giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was unveiled on Tuesday at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands.

The meatball was created by Australian cultured meat company Vow which – promising this was not an April Fools’ joke – said it wanted to get people talking about cultured meat, calling it a more sustainable alternative for real meat.

What?

“We wanted to create something that was totally different from anything you can get now,” Vow founder Tim Noakesmith told Reuters, adding that an additional reason for choosing mammoth is that scientists believe that the animal’s extinction was caused by climate change.

Vow founder Tim Noakesmith

The meatball was made of sheep cells inserted with a singular mammoth gene called myoglobin.

“When it comes to meat, myoglobin is responsible for the aroma, the colour and the taste”, James Ryall, Vow’s Chief Scientific Officer explained.

Since the mammoth’s DNA sequence obtained by Vow had a few gaps, African elephant DNA was inserted to complete it.

Much like they do in the movie Jurassic Park“, Ryall said, stressing the biggest difference is that they were not creating actual animals.

Yeah, I mean, this is confusing.

Are we supposed to be eating extinct animals? That becomes the question.

As they are saying, it’s actually just a crossover between the gene science to resurrect extinct animals and the plan to feed people lab meat, which is meant as a promotional stunt for the latter, but 99% of people are going to hear this story and think they are saying we should eat woolly mammoths.

The majority cannot follow convoluted marketing schemes, which is why in marketing, the first thing they tell you is that your schemes shouldn’t be convoluted.

I will say, however: it does look delicious.

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