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.
Tastes like chicken?
THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT
“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”
“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?”
“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”
“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”
“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”
“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”
“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.”
“Maybe they’re like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage.”
“Nope. They’re born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn’t take long. Do you have any idea what’s the life span of meat?”
“Spare me. Okay, maybe they’re only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside.”
“Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads, like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They’re meat all the way through.”
“No brain?”
“Oh, there’s a brain all right. It’s just that the brain is made out of meat! That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.”
“So ... what does the thinking?”
“You’re not understanding, are you? You’re refusing to deal with what I’m telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat.”
“Thinking meat! You’re asking me to believe in thinking meat!”
“Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?”
“Omigod. You’re serious then. They’re made out of meat.”
“Thank you. Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out of meat. And they’ve been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years.”
“Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?”
“First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual.”
“We’re supposed to talk to meat.”
“That’s the idea. That’s the message they’re sending out by radio. ‘Hello. Anyone out there. Anybody home.’ That sort of thing.”
“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”
“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”
“I thought you just told me they used radio.”
“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”
“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”
“Officially or unofficially?”
“Both.”
“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”
“I was hoping you would say that.”
“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”
“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’ But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?”
“Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can’t live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact.”
“So we just pretend there’s no one home in the Universe.”
“That’s it.”
“Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You’re sure they won’t remember?”
“They’ll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we’re just a dream to them.”
“A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat’s dream.”
“And we marked the entire sector unoccupied.”
“Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?”
“Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again.”
“They always come around.”
“And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ...”
Soylent Green, now in new Jerky flavor!
Tender because it now contains 50% more children!
When a wild animal eats a human, they put it down because it has acquired a taste for human flesh... Maybe this talk of a zombie apocalypse is not too far-fetched.
Apparently, "Another" neither owns, nor has access to, an English language dictionary.
Isn’t cannibalism the logical step after sexual perversion?
The “progressives” want this kind of “progress”. :-(
I would think the hardest thing about being a cannibal is trying to get some very deep sleep, you know what I mean? I would think, you’d be like, (pretending to wake up) “Who is that? Who’s there? Who’s there? Is somebody there? What do you want? What do you want? You look hungry, are you hungry? Get out of here!”
‘bovine spongeform encephylitis’ I am not sure of the spelling... Mad Cow... right?
I'd sooner open up a major artery with a butter knife than do that. NEVER! And who is the knuckle-head that even asks this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoNAOfkXxc Who knows what you would do in a lifeboat?
They wont even mention the most important part. What wine would one serve with that meat? A nice Chianti?
That comes from eating the brains is what I heard
AND FAVA BEANS AS A SIDE DISH...................
Not enough vegetarians in the world?
Somebody noticed that Newman was reading “Alive” while Kramer was cooking in the hot tub.
I couldn’t see it close enough to know if it was true.
(I can’t find the clip right off)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTxim-dtssE
Kind of a new spin on the move “Parts: The Clonus Horror.”
Maybe: “Lunch: The Clonus Meal?”
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