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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: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:29AM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:29AM (#650384) Journal

  2) it was proven that there was no risk of prion disease from consuming purely flesh meat.

  Was it though? I remember they find prions in sheep muscle back in the day.
  Let me see... Ok, here it is [sciencemag.org]

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• Re:One of those thought experiments (Score: 1) by dwilson on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:00PM

  by dwilson (2599) on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:00PM (#650539) Journal

  *In theory,* there would be nothing wrong with this so long as 1) no nerve tissue were involved and 2) it was proven that there was no risk of prion disease from consuming purely flesh meat.

  Whether it was proven or not, he never implied either way.

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