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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   
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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• Re:One of those thought experiments Re:One of those thought experiments (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:47AM (1 child)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:47AM (#650372) Journal

  Because, of course, we are omnivores. We eat everything that doesn't eat us first.

  Personally, I have no desire to eat human flesh. But, I'm aware that most people are quite happy existing as a LCD - or lowest common denominator. They make that obvious in their choice of music, preferred inebriating drinks, and other choices. Seen any Kardashian trash lately?

  I suppose that lab-grown human flesh will hit the market - and people with scruples will just have to tolerate it. The LCD's may well prefer that human flesh to real meat. It may replace beef at McDonald's. Get ready for it.

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• Re:One of those thought experiments (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:17AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:17AM (#650717)

  What? Why? What is wrong with you?

  There's no beef at McDonald's, so how could it be replaced with anything?

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