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You seem to be asking if you can build shoes out of skin grown via stem cells. Correct, and why?

7 hours ago, fredreload said:

So to make stem cells into skin and convert it to shoes

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There are lots of products that would come before shoes, in the list of priorities. A nice hairy scalp, for baldies. New skin for burns victims. Cosmetic enhancements. Bigger boobs and willies. 

Leather is gradually losing out in shoe manufacture anyway. And people will still eat beef and lamb, so the raw materials for leather would probably just go to waste, if there was a cheaper alternative. 

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37 minutes ago, mistermack said:

There are lots of products that would come before shoes, in the list of priorities. A nice hairy scalp, for baldies. New skin for burns victims. Cosmetic enhancements. Bigger boobs and willies. 

Leather is gradually losing out in shoe manufacture anyway. And people will still eat beef and lamb, so the raw materials for leather would probably just go to waste, if there was a cheaper alternative. 

Hmm, I just found on YouTube Ted TV that using stem cells for leather actually isn't a new idea. When you go to a formal meeting or interview, people still prefer leather shoes. Thing is once you've realized leather is just another type of material, it really does open a lot of interesting aspects in terms of the raw materials for shoe design. Although working for a shoe original equipment manufacturing company this transition is probably not we sought after, but it does open a lot of possibilities for the brands. At least after things have stabilized, we'll have a much better idea of what we are looking after.

Why the heck would anyone use stem cells for that process? Leather is mostly collagen so to make vat grown leather it would be easier to a) utilize cell cultures that produce collagen naturally (i.e. not stem cells) or even create production strains (e.g. yeast or bacteria) that can produce it.

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