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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 16, 2018 at 11:29 pm
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(March 16, 2018 at 10:55 pm)Losty Wrote: (March 16, 2018 at 10:52 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: So that we can eat dead people? Just a wild guess...
I personally would rather keep the taboo and...you know, not eat dead people.
Not only that, but as I understood it from various documentaries I've seen in the past, cannibalism also causes some sort of disease characterised by shaking... so it looks like it's not just a cultural taboo but also a biological one.
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 16, 2018 at 11:51 pm
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Talkin bout kuru? Ish. It's a cultural taboo informed by possible biological consequences (and a mound of other x)..but those are far from certain. Similar risks are present in most of our livestock.
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 16, 2018 at 11:55 pm
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 16, 2018 at 11:56 pm
(March 16, 2018 at 11:29 pm)emjay Wrote: (March 16, 2018 at 10:55 pm)Losty Wrote: I personally would rather keep the taboo and...you know, not eat dead people.
Not only that, but as I understood it from various documentaries I've seen in the past, cannibalism also causes some sort of disease characterised by shaking... so it looks like it's not just a cultural taboo but also a biological one.
Yeah I was about to say the same. Eating human meat can do some weird shit to your blood and be dangerous. You figure a biologist would know that. Let's keep cannibalism taboo please.
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 17, 2018 at 12:02 am
Ah yes, that fatal and obscure disease Does Some Weird Shit To Your Bloodism.
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 17, 2018 at 12:09 am
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(March 17, 2018 at 12:02 am)Khemikal Wrote: Ah yes, that fatal and obscure disease Does Some Weird Shit To Your Bloodism.
Sorry, I don't know what the disease is, just that I've seen it mentioned more than once in the past, both with regard to humans and other animals... I think... it was a long time ago. But it makes sense to me that animals might have an inbuilt safeguard like that against cannibalism.
(March 16, 2018 at 11:51 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Talkin bout kuru? Ish. It's a cultural taboo informed by possible biological consequences (and a mound of other x)..but those are far from certain. Similar risks are present in most of our livestock.
Sorry, I didn't see this when I replied. It's probably that then.
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 17, 2018 at 12:14 am
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Yeah it's kuru. It's the only known consequence of cannibalism on record..it was limited to a small group of people who had..wait for it...kuru...and even though they stopped eating people with kuru a ways back..they keep getting kuru. Leading researchers to posit that kuru may have an abnormally long incubation period..or there may be more ways to get kuru from a person with kuru (or from wherever the hell they're getting kuru now).
The bloodism thing was a joke. There is no such effect of cannibalism, lol.
There's no known inbuilt safeguard to cannibalism, either, not in that sense anyway. More interestingly, why would you think it would make sense that there would be?
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 17, 2018 at 12:17 am
(March 16, 2018 at 11:56 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ...Yeah I was about to say the same. Eating human meat can do some weird shit to your blood and be dangerous. You figure a biologist would know that. Let's keep cannibalism taboo please.
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 17, 2018 at 12:27 am
In all fairness, "lab-grown human meat" wouldn't be human meat.
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RE: Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat
March 17, 2018 at 12:31 am
I'm still trying to figure out why I should care what Richard Dawkins' culinary fetishes are .
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