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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, Funny) by ilPapa on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:12AM (6 children)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:12AM (#650377) Journal

    Y'all eat pork right?

    Nah, I just don't dig on no swine. that's all.

    https://youtu.be/ZA_Tl1kvlQU [youtu.be]

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:23AM (#650382)

    Fredrikson was having the time of his life. When they begged, he chuckled. When they screamed, he cracked up. When they spasmed, he chortled. When they became silence itself, he cackled. What's more, Fredrikson was able to cause all of these things to happen with stunning regularity; it was like his own personal comedy show! He laughed and he laughed and he laughed, and the more he laughed, the larger the pile of garbage became. Or was it a pile of women's corpses? What's the difference?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Arik on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:50AM (4 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:50AM (#650391) Journal
    Why did you need to change the line? Were you trying to make it more stereotypically ebonic?

    'No I ain't Jewish I just don't dig on swine that's all."

    It's a historical fact that when cannibals are forced to find an alternative meat for their traditional dishes, they choose pork.

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    • (Score: 1, Troll) by ilPapa on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:44AM (3 children)

      by ilPapa (2366) on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:44AM (#650408) Journal

      when cannibals are forced to find an alternative meat for their traditional dishes, they choose pork.

      I'm not sure anyone here outside of law enforcement wants to know how you know that.

      Why did you need to change the line? Were you trying to make it more stereotypically ebonic?

      What the fuck is "stereotypically ebonic"? Is that something you and your friends at Stormfront have come up with?

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      • (Score: 4, Funny) by Arik on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:58AM (1 child)

        by Arik (4543) on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:58AM (#650413) Journal
        "I'm not sure anyone here outside of law enforcement wants to know how you know that."

        https://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/

        "What the fuck is "stereotypically ebonic"?"

        In simple words, "acting black." In this case, the original line was altered to sound "more black" than the eminently black actor in question managed to delivery it. Very strange.

        "Is that something you and your friends at Stormfront have come up with?"

        Just in case you're actually retarded, I'll let you in on this thing, the Stormfront folks aren't particularly fond of my type.

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        • (Score: 1, Troll) by ilPapa on Saturday March 10 2018, @08:00PM

          by ilPapa (2366) on Saturday March 10 2018, @08:00PM (#650617) Journal

          the Stormfront folks aren't particularly fond of my type.

          They'll tolerate you to the extent that you advance their favorite stereotypes. For people who need attention so badly that they post Soylent comments in courier, that may be acceptance enough.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:05AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:05AM (#650419)
        http://www.zocalo.com.mx/seccion/articulo/la-sangrienta-historia-del-pozole-1409784353