"Hey Meathead, you're a Polack, NOT a Weddilei!"
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.
If it was given to me under false pretenses yes:-)
And then I’d comment “This tastes great” or “this tastes funny”.
Taboo is a stupid word for a cultural prohibition for an action based on long years of experience.
Eat humans, die from the disease that killed them.
ONLY CLOWNS TASTE FUNNY...................
I used to say “The definition of courage is being the first person to eat an oyster”. Then someone corrected me: “That’s the definition of starvation.”
It was only a matter of time.
LOL
Walter: [about Zorgons] What do they eat?/Zathura
Astronaut: Meat.
Danny: That's good.
Astronaut: Dude. You're meat.
Monty python had a lot of great “cannibalism in the navy” skits.
D@mn! Beat me to it! GMTA.
hey Dawkins, ask Hillary how that worked out for her.
Look what I found!
If it doesn’t have a split hoof and chews the cud, or if it doesn’t have scales and fins I am not sticking it in my mouth. it’s not a matter of religious dieting guidelines, it’s just that I don’t eat scavenger meat. I spent a few summers and high school working at my uncle’s farm, uncle raised pigs, and pigs eat anything. And I mean they will eat anything. Therefore they are according to biblical law scavengers. That also applies to birds who are not grain eaters exclusively. Which includes chickens.
Keeper!
Awesome job!
How obscene. Its obviously a leftist bunch of crapolla.
Let the left eat long cake. They truly cannot tell the difference between cannibalism and a genuinely human diet.
You can buy Fijian long pig banquet forks on eBay. Just sayin’.
;^)
Only if you are having Italian:-)
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