"Ewwww, with a gammy leg?"
Posted on 03/14/2018 10:04:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
PEOPLE have been asked whether they would consider chowing down on human meat after science boffins starting growing flesh in a lab.
Celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins recently tweeted asking his followers’ thoughts on starting a cannibal diet.
Linking to an article about lab-grown flesh, the evolutionary biologist wrote: "I've long been looking forward to this," he wrote. "What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?”
He went to say the scientific breakthrough will be an “interesting test case for the consequentialist morality versus ‘yuck reaction’ absolutism.”
The question of whether people would eat artificially created human flesh has been raised before.
Matti Wilks, of at the University of Queensland, Australia, conducted a study into how people feel about the issue.
And unsurprisingly, only a tiny proportion of people would be prepared to eat lab-grown human, dog, cat or horse meat.
She said: "I can't imagine that people who don't want to eat human meat now would suddenly feel motivated to eat human meat when produced via cellular agriculture.”
Mr Dawkins’ Twitter followers also didn’t seem to keen on the idea.
One wrote: “Dawkins. My pal. My buddy. Taboos are generally things we do NOT want to get over for many ethical and moral reasons.”
Another commented: “Personally, I wouldn’t consider eating the material that humans are made from as cannibalism although I suppose most people would. Whatever the DNA, to cease the annual suffering of billions of animals should be a primary goal.”
Just last year, scientists revealed they had created fake meat that “bleeds”.
The so-called “test tube” burgers were set to be the biggest gourmet trend of 2018 but have yet to make an impact on the food market.
Good grief!
From the excerpt:
“The question of whether people would eat artificially created human flesh has been raised before.”
Haha— Terry Bisson. Great story.
I hear demonrat is stringy and you need lots of bbq sauce to cover the taste. And they carry diseases.
Why grow it when you can just harvest it?
No. And I won’t knowingly or willingly eat any “meat” made in a lab. Next stupid question?
I imagine, though, human lab meat might take off among a certain perverse class of people who have become common and bold lately.
By the way — did I wake up this morning in the 21st century in an alleged Judaeo-Christian civilization? I know — that doesn’t necessarily mean anything anymore.
If I were snowbound in Truckee or stranded on top of the Andes I would.
Hell, if they can create human meat... why not wygu???
They call it the World Wide Web. You can e-mail anyone!
(FWIW I think Nina was one of Jerry’s hottest girlfriends.)
Not only will some people consume human shmeat, there will probably be celebrities marketing shmeat cultivated from their own cells.
A fan of Madonna? Throw a slab of her on the grill! It may be a novelty but I don’t think human shmeat will be very popular compared to shmeat versions of traditional meats.
Shmeat will be very lean if desired, free of parasites, hormones, antibiotics and disease. The meat we get today, produced in high-speed slaughterhouse conditions from terrified animals who’ve been caged indoors all their lives, is not in any way natural or wholesome.
Oh yes. She used to do a shampoo commercial.
She’s probably a rabid liberal - Justine Miceli
But yes, she was very pretty.
It’s the knuckleheads who are always “pushing boundaries” and claiming enlightenment as a goal when their real goal is just to tear down the functional civilization of individualist freedom lovers and supplant it with what will turn out to be a dystopian nightmare for the vast majority but which they as individuals feel they’ll have some superior stature for they and their progeny to enjoy...
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