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Swedish Scientist Proposes Cannibalism to Fight Climate Change
Breitbart ^ | 6 Sep 2019 | CHRIS TOMLINSON

Posted on 09/06/2019 6:14:05 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Swedish behavioural scientist Magnus Söderlund has suggested that eating other people after they die could be a means of combatting climate change.

The scientist mentioned the possibility of cannibalism during a broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 this week about a fair in Stockholm regarding “food of the future”.

Söderlund is set to hold seminars at the event, entitled “Gastro Summit — about the future of food” where he intends to discuss the possibility of eating people in the name of cutting down greenhouse emissions.

According to his research, the main problem with the idea is the widespread taboo of eating human flesh and said that conservative attitudes could make it hard to convince Swedes at large to take up the practice of cannibalism.

Regardless of the likely immense resistance to the idea of eating people, Söderlund said it was important to examine different options in the name of sustainability.

Söderlund is not alone in his call to reject the taboo of cannibalism. Last year, noted atheist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins advocated for lab-grown meat and suggested it may be used to “overcome our taboo against cannibalism”.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cannibalism; magnussoderlund
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To: Celtic Conservative

He’s a hypocrite it he hasn’t already offered himself up as a meatball.


21 posted on 09/06/2019 6:54:18 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Amberdawn

ping. Not China, yet...


22 posted on 09/06/2019 6:56:17 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Nobel Prize for Jeff Dahmer?

(Makes as much sense as Obama getting one.)

23 posted on 09/06/2019 6:57:35 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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To: Mr. Mojo

It’s cannibalism when body parts from abortions are used in vaccinations and anything else that is in our bodies.


24 posted on 09/06/2019 6:59:29 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: IrishBrigade

You have to have morality to have hypocrisy. In any case, morality without deity is just shared whim.


25 posted on 09/06/2019 7:00:50 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: Mr. Mojo

So Jeffery Dahmer should be hailed as a hero to this nutcase...


26 posted on 09/06/2019 7:00:58 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Sacajaweau
re: "A Modest Proposal" was part of studying English Lit in HS. Back then, people recognized when a work was satire, and used it to initiate discussion of the world we live in.

Today, we've become a society that's too humorless for folks to even get it. Sad, isn't it?

27 posted on 09/06/2019 7:03:00 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: Mr. Mojo

Let’s see what the liberals have to say about gun control when someone suggests a hunting season to obtain their nourishment.


28 posted on 09/06/2019 7:03:25 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: Mr. Mojo

You know you’re in trouble when at a restaurant you ask for a menu, and they hand you a mirror instead.


29 posted on 09/06/2019 7:08:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah, but that was satire


30 posted on 09/06/2019 7:08:33 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Well that’s a modest proposal! Wonder how many left wing Lilliputian minds agree?


31 posted on 09/06/2019 7:16:56 AM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I don’t see how eating dead human bodies would have a good impact on the environment. A dead human body probably contains about one-tenth the meat of a dead cow, or less. So even if I ate all my dead relatives, it would probably take a decade or more to save one cow’s worth. At most it would reduce the demand for other meat in a very minor way.


32 posted on 09/06/2019 7:20:51 AM PDT by Stirner
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To: Mr. Mojo

This is why I use the “ha-ha” icon whenever I read of the Swede’s misfortunes in their oh-so-vibrantly-diversity-enhanced society.


33 posted on 09/06/2019 7:25:55 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I would suggest the Swedes start by spit roasting Greta Thunberg


34 posted on 09/06/2019 7:34:55 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I’d love all these socialists who have these great plans for how the rest of us should live, like eating bugs and other people, to volunteer to do it first.

Show us how it’s done and how it works out for you.

Lead by example.


35 posted on 09/06/2019 7:41:13 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Sir why did you kill this man with a Butcher Knife?”

“Well because I was hungry and food is short so I carved
him up for dinner to save the world from devastation.”

“Dismissed!”


36 posted on 09/06/2019 8:00:30 AM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Sorry, but nothing replaces Bacon:-)


37 posted on 09/06/2019 8:39:02 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Alas Babylon!

Very astute observations there, FRiend.


38 posted on 09/06/2019 9:21:13 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: dfwgator

LMAO!

CC


39 posted on 09/06/2019 9:21:22 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: Mr. Mojo

My Dad used to say the only thing dumber than a dumb Swede is a smart Norwegian. He was half Finn.


40 posted on 09/06/2019 9:21:42 AM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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