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'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/
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:06AM
That's besides the point. We certainly don't need human meat. And I actually don't expect anyone growing human meat in the lab (or more exactly, I expect people to grow human flesh for medical purposes, or maybe for experiments, but I don't think it will ever be grown for consumption as food).
But note that we don't need pork either. We could survive quite fine never eating pork in our entire life (and there are many people in the world who do exactly that). Yet pork is bought a lot, and many people wouldn't be willing to go without it. So if there were a significant market for lab-grown human meat, then it would be produced whether we need it or not.
Indeed, if there were enough people wanting to eat human meat, we'd have an illegal market for it right now. After all, organized crime never had any issues with killing or otherwise harming humans for monetary gain.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.