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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:25PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:25PM (#650583)

  It still happens, but why would this be any different from rape? Anybody who would make use of the pretend version already is. Humans probably taste like pork or chicken, but there's not very many folks out there willing to say and few are willing to try.

  There are folks that do enjoy role playing rape, it's a very different situation. Same goes for people that are willing to pretend to be eating people, there's no reason to use meat that's got human DNA as you're probably not going to be able to tell the difference without a DNA test.

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• Re:One of those thought experiments Re:One of those thought experiments (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:46PM (1 child)

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:46PM (#650593) Journal

  there's no reason to use meat that's got human DNA as you're probably not going to be able to tell the difference without a DNA test.

  Like a placebo effect, except that knowing it's real could make it more effective in satisfying the fetish.

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  • Re:One of those thought experiments (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:25PM (#650646)

    No. Some people just need to be locked up.

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