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'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist Mulls 'Taboo Against Cannibalism' Ending as Lab-Grown Meat Improves

posted by martyb on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the Newest-Entrée-at-Milliways?-Long-Pig-Bacon? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves

What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?"
- @RichardDawkins - 6:15 AM - 3 Mar 2018

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/969939225180364805
https://archive.fo/kSmgi

"Lab-grown 'clean' meat could be on sale by end of 2018, says producer"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/clean-meat-lab-grown-available-restaurants-2018-global-warming-greenhouse-emissions-a8236676.html

"'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/6/richard-dawkins-mulls-taboo-against-cannibalism-en/

and:

https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/corner/richard-dawkins-eating-human-meat-cannibalism-taboo/

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:59AM (#650710)

    Nuff said.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:05AM (#650714)

    When they make human clones, he can fuck himself in the ass.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:05PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:05PM (#650908) Journal

    This is unnecessarily offtopic gross and offensive.

    But, since even this could be defined a taboo who has to be infringed, then you are entirely justified in your suggestion.

    It will save us bots some cleanup work even.

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