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By Jo Nova
Next step: sustainable human steak?
They don’t mention the “sustainable” word, but you know they want to. Right from the start they’re selling us on it:
Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can’t it be left to feed the hungry?
Why can’t we feed our bodies to the homeless indeed, apart from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, parasites, heavy metals? Who knows what else will pop up on the radar if cannibalism popped up on the menu often enough?
Not to mention that relatives might feel a bit miffed if Aunty Betty was carved up for canapes and offered up to the crowd at the local alcoholics shelter.
We can devalue human lives, but think of the cows we’ll save!
And the CultureWar continues
Tut. Tut. Tut. New Scientist gently chides us for being the modern prejudiced people who think cannibalism is taboo. Its just your colonial roots that do that to you, right?
If only we could learn from a stone age culture?
Our aversion has been explained in various ways. Perhaps it is down to […]
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