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could ivory be grown in a lab?

>> No.4193186

I just read this in his voice

>> No.4193192

Yes, absolutely. It would no doubt be considered 'counterfeit' in the trade though.

>> No.4193265

>>4193192
it wouldn't be like artificial diamonds
it would be biological in every way

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>>4193186

Well that's weird..

>> No.4193284

>>4193265
There is nothing artificial about artificial diamonds, diamond is diamond, the industrial ones are usually bigger, prettier and more perfect that the "real" diamonds. This whole malarkey about "real" and "artificial" is bullshit put out by the De Beers company, who want to maintain rarity. Diamondina, Diamonelle, Diamonesque, these things are trade names for real fucking diamonds as far as any woman in the world is concerned.

>> No.4193285

We could take it one step further:
Just as pearls can be grown into a specific shape other than a sphere by placing a small wax model into the clam shell, so too could this laboratory ivory be grown ready formed however you liked

>> No.4193286

i'm inclined to say "no"

but then again, I don't know how ivory forms.

>> No.4193312

>>4193286
it is teeth and tusks

>> No.4193322

>>4193312
>>4193286

then yes.
We just haven't done it yet.
The economics of it probably mean that it will never get done.

>> No.4193338

>>4193285
developmental biology meets sculpture and fine art! Damien Hirst will look as cliche and passe as Picasso.

>> No.4193361

>>4193322
on the contrary, ivory is so highly valued for relatively small quantities that the economics of it mean itll probably be made before lab-grown meat and vegetables (which WILL be coming, eventually

>> No.4193387

they could dig up all the mammoths buried in Siberia