A company made volleyball-sized meatballs with mammoth DNA, but no one tasted them because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein

A company made volleyball-sized meatballs with mammoth DNA, but no one tasted them because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein

No, it won't be served with a side of spaghetti. Instead, cultured meat firm Vow made the meatball to raise questions about the future of food.

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• An Australian cultured meat firm made a giant meatball with mammoth DNA and lab-made lamb.
• No one tasted the meatball out of concerns around potential allergies to the 5,000-year-old protein.
• The meatball is "a striking statement" to raise awareness of meat alternatives, the firm said.

Chicken, fish, or mammoth? Australian cultured meat company Vow has engineered a giant meatball made with a surprising protein: woolly mammoth DNA. But no one has tasted it because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein.

The meatball was made from extinct woolly mammoth DNA and fragments of African elephant DNA, a close relative to the mammoth, according to a press release from Vow. The DNA was then inserted into lab-made lamb, CNN reported.

Vow said the process utilized "new and innovative technology" to produce a giant meatball that's intended to make a statement about the food industry rather than a new menu item. The meatball "aims to challenge the public and the meat industry to think differently about how we produce and consume food - highlighting cultured meat as a viable alternative to traditional animal agriculture," the press release said.

But there's another reason why no one's dug a fork into the entree. James Ryall, chief scientific officer at Vow, told CNN it's unclear if humans can stomach mammoth meat.

"Normally, we would taste our products and play around with them. But we were hesitant to immediately try and taste because we're talking about a protein that hasn't existed for 5,000 years. I've got no idea what the potential allergenicity might be of this particular protein," Ryall said.

There is evidence that ancient humans consumed mammoth meat, and even that they used clever preservation methods, like submerging it in cold water, due to the sheer quantity of meat that could be harvested from the animal, according to the book "Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food" by Lenore Newman.

The meatball was revealed on Tuesday and will join the collection at a Netherlands science and medicine museum.

 

[Nut-Roaster the 2nd]

Fuckers wasted a perfectly good meatball. I'm fucking enraged.

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

I would rather have the extra steps of having to kill and butcher the animal over growing some weird ass mammoth flavored lamb mystery meat concoction. Fuck the allergies that shit doesn't look appetizing at all.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Bullshit. People have eaten actual frozen mammoth meat several times over the last few decades and nobody ever had allergic reactions. To say nothing of the fact that humans ate mammoth as a common part of their diet thousands of years ago. There is no reason to believe we are allergic to it

Fucking idiots

Sounds more like marketing than stupidity. Make it seem exotic and dangerous to pique interest.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

So it's American then not Wooly Mammoth correct? Who dares to ingest the prion ball?

 

[Pissmaster]

Modern science always be like "We did something cool, but then ruined it by being total faggots"

 

[OutInTheRain]

Pussies, I would have eaten it. At least did they throw the meatball at someone, just for shits and giggles?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I want those tiny elephants back. Mammoths are cool, but not good house pets. Let the evil giant swans that hunted them stay extinct.

 

[DankSmoker]

I thought aussies were into doing dangerous stuff for attention, what a bunch of nerd faggots.

 

[OvercookedBacon]

A company made volleyball-sized meatballs with mammoth DNA, but no one tasted them because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein​

Then donate them to animal shelters or wildlife preserves. Imagine being a rescue big cat and getting to munch something your ancestors did.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Bullshit. People have eaten actual frozen mammoth meat several times over the last few decades and nobody ever had allergic reactions. To say nothing of the fact that humans ate mammoth as a common part of their diet thousands of years ago. There is no reason to believe we are allergic to it

Fucking idiots

Yeah, even as a kid I knew that researchers have eaten mammoth meat. It didn't taste very good, because like any meat you keep in a freezer for a long enough time is going to taste like mud when you try to thaw it out.

Also...how is going to be allergenic? Who the hell has a "meat allergy"?

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

People have eaten actual frozen mammoth meat several times over the last few decades

If modern people hadn't eaten frozen mammoth meat

even as a kid I knew that researchers have eaten mammoth meat.

Out of curiosity, I decided to look into the story since I vaguely remembered it as well.
Turns out it's been deboonked I guess.

Study Proves The Explorers Club Didn't Really Eat Mammoth at 1950s New York Dinner

One of the most legendary New York City dinner parties of all time was held in 1951 by the exclusive Explorers Club.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Out of curiosity, I decided to look into the story since I vaguely remembered it as well.
Turns out it's been deboonked I guess.

Study Proves The Explorers Club Didn't Really Eat Mammoth at 1950s New York Dinner

One of the most legendary New York City dinner parties of all time was held in 1951 by the exclusive Explorers Club.

www.sciencealert.com

A sea turtle still counts as prehistoric. They've been swimming around for 110 million years. The guy promising prehistoric meat wasn't lying.

 

[Retink Retunk]

> Look at this food we made for you using science.
> Will we eat it? Fuck no!

 

[Toolbox]

You Will Never Be a Real Mammoth

You have no tusks, you have no fur.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

You have no tusks, you have no fur.

You are an amorphous meat wad twisted by DNA injections into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

>Developed in an Australian Lab
>Did not consider using the abbos to test it since its clear they have not evolved since caveman times

You people are a disgrace to science.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

What lesson am I supposed to be learning here?

Making meat in a laboratory is good or eating meat is bad because it makes you sick?

 

[Kheapathic]

Five million, cover my room and board during observation. Throw in an Italian Chef and we can find out a lot more... For science of course.

That's my price.

 

[Sugriva]

I'll go a step further and say if you've got a fuckin allergy to such a rudimentary protein, it's probably best you get going anyway. Same for those peanut niggers.

Imagine being killed by a nut lmao. Inferior genes.

 

[GatorAids]

The best part about making mammoth meatballs is knowing that niggers don’t know how to, and it’s important to make mammoth meatballs, so that you can remind negroes that they can’t have anything good in life. They’re allowed to have malt liquor and sabretooth tiger piss, and fast food fried dodo. Hey, that's a pretty good meatball... Not that a nigger would know HAHA HAHAHAHAHA