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Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’

posted by martyb on Saturday September 07 2019, @05:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the "Long-Pig" dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A Swedish behavioral scientist has suggested that it may be necessary to turn to cannibalism and start eating humans in order to save the planet.

Appearing on Swedish television to talk about an event based around the "food of the future," Magnus Söderlund said he would be holding seminars on the necessity of consuming human flesh in order to stop climate change.

Environmentalists blame the meat and farming industry for a large part of what they claim is the warming of the earth.

According to Söderlund, a potential fix would be the Soylent Green-solution of eating dead bodies instead.

https://summit.news/2019/09/04/swedish-behavioral-scientist-suggests-eating-humans-to-save-the-planet/

[Ed note: At first I was going to give this story a pass and then, well... this site is called SoylentNews said name being tangentially related to Soylent Green and the tag line is: "SoylentNews is people", so it only goes to follow that you are what you eat, right? Feel free to comment seriously, but I'm quite frankly more interested in what kind of fun the community can have with this story! Some jokes just write themselves. --martyb]

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by XivLacuna on Saturday September 07 2019, @05:57AM (6 children)

    by XivLacuna (6346) on Saturday September 07 2019, @05:57AM (#890855)

    Kuru might be a hip and cool trend among the elites but I'm not going to take it up. This is probably just a scare tactic to get people to eat bugs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:17PM (#890937)

    You are already consuming human tissue in your bread from china: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/53jx5n/theres-human-hair-in-your-bread [vice.com]

    This is just pulling back the curtain.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:06PM (#890968)

      no prion disease to be had.

      But importing bread from china is more wasteful than not recycling dead humans so if this hair stuff is a real thing I know where I'd start.

  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Nuke on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:18PM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:18PM (#890938)

    I'd rather eat humans than bugs, as long as they don't have bugs in them.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:58PM (#890947)

      Good luck with that, you parasite-ridden bugbag.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @12:43PM (#890944)

    No problem Just make mandatory a Fugu [wikipedia.org] No-Kuru license.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by EvilSS on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:04PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:04PM (#890966)
    Eh, stay away from the central neurological tissues (brain, spinal column) and fluids and you should be fine. Just trust in our well trained, established corporate slaughter houses to do it right!