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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: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:11AM (4 children)

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:11AM (#650364) Journal

    This was pointed out years ago by people on and off of here.

    Human, penguin, mammoth, dodo, whatever. If you can get a hold of the DNA, you have a chance of making cultured meat out of it.

    In fact, you don't necessarily need a DNA sample. Once we have the ability use a digital genome to synthesize human cells, a publicly available genome could be downloaded and used to start meat production. Craig Ventburger, anyone?

    The National Review writer is an anti-fun Christian loser.

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:50AM (2 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:50AM (#650432) Journal

    Human, penguin, mammoth, dodo, whatever. If you can get a hold of the DNA, you have a chance of making cultured meat out of it.

    Okay. But I (still) draw the line at lips and assholes.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday March 10 2018, @07:38AM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday March 10 2018, @07:38AM (#650446) Journal

      Yum, human calamari [slate.com].

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:03AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:03AM (#650712)

        Why calamari and not just point out that sausage casings are sometimes made with icky animal parts?

        If somebody wants to avoid ick ick ick at finding out how their food is made, they should become a vegetarian. Then when they find out where milk comes from, they'll become a vegan.

        Facepalm inducing stupidity from people who have never seen a farm in their life.

  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Saturday March 10 2018, @08:26PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 10 2018, @08:26PM (#650624)
    Will put a whole new meaning to "Eat me ass hole!" won't it?