Is this real? (starting to dig)
Waybackmachine has this from 2014.
EAT CELEBRITY MEAT
BiteLabs grows meat from celebrity tissue samples
and uses it to make artisanal salami.
Ellen DeGeneres
Please welcome the Ellen Salami
As a salami, we see Ellen Salami composition blended with ostrich. Black pepper and garlic with a playful kick of mustard give the Ellen salami a highly approachable and well-rounded flavor. A hint of brandy and shallots will finish off the Ellen salami in exquisite fashion.
tumblr too
https://eatcelebritymeat.tumblr.com/post/76893381093/to-test-out-combinations-of-seasonings-for-each
They made a pretty big stink about it, then nothing. Was it just a way to collect email addresses of kindred people.
USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/02/27/celebrity-salami-bite-labs/5861595/
But then dismissed as a joke.
From: THE STEM CELLAR
The Official Blog of CIRM, California's Stem Cell Agency
"Turns out it was more of a joke, or at least a fun way to get people discussing bioethics and pushing the boundaries – or maybe it was the buttons – of tech and society.
If that was meant to be a joke then some researchers at Maastricht University in the Netherlands didn’t get it. Because the next year they actually produced a burger that was made out of stem cells."
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/tag/bitelabs/
So RBG needs a disinfectant?