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posted by martyb on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the Newest-Entrée-at-Milliways?-Long-Pig-Bacon? dept.

'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: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday March 10 2018, @10:30AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Saturday March 10 2018, @10:30AM (#650485) Homepage

    But why go to the trouble of growing human meat and ensuring there are no prions, when other meats that do not need to be checked as much are readily available?

    If the other meat doesn't need to be checked, why would the human meat have to be checked? If the process doesn't generate prions it doesn't generate prions.

    Still it seems obvious that growing human meat is not the best idea when other options are equally available, simply because it's never been a regular part of the human diet.

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