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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 legont on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:59AM (2 children)

  by legont (4179) on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:59AM (#650396)

  It should be good from a pure nutrient point of view as it could have exactly the right balance of everything.

  It's bad because of the highest probability of bio contamination.

  Overall, I believe that bugs ate cannibals and that's why there are relatively few of them in nature.

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• Re:One of those thought experiments Re:One of those thought experiments (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:03AM (1 child)

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:03AM (#650397) Journal

  It should be good from a pure nutrient point of view as it could have exactly the right balance of everything.

  Have you seen the average American?

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  • Re:One of those thought experiments (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12 2018, @11:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12 2018, @11:00AM (#651288)

    It should be good from a pure nutrient point of view as it could have exactly the right balance of everything.

    Have you seen the average American?

    Yes, they're a proper Atkins diet galore!

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