Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat

[Ravenshire]

So . . .

genetically, who are we talking about eating ??

I'd be picky about it.  It would have to be a he, and an attractive one at that.

Wow! That is something to think about! To grow laboratory human meat, would it have to have an xx or xy chromosome combo? Would it be marketed that way? (Man Meat $7.99 lb, Woman Meat $8.99 lb. PETH Friendly! No actual humans were harmed in the production of this sustainable protein source. Oh, also, gluten free!)

(emphasis is mine)

It wouldn't have to be, but it could. And, if the industry saw a profitable advantage to doing so, it would. We do seek out Toms at Thanksgiving after all.

[chimp3]

Wow! That is something to think about! To grow laboratory human meat, would it have to have an xx or xy chromosome combo? Would it be marketed that way? (Man Meat $7.99 lb, Woman Meat $8.99 lb. PETH Friendly! No actual humans were harmed in the production of this sustainable protein source. Oh, also, gluten free!)

(emphasis is mine)

It wouldn't have to be, but it could. And, if the industry saw a profitable advantage to doing so, it would. We do seek out Toms at Thanksgiving after all.

I think I would want one or the other, not neutered meat. That "absorbing their power" thing, don't you know!

[The Valkyrie]

Oh, that's right.

I've been advocating cannibalism for years and no one has paid any attention.

But someone famous says it...

[Ravenshire]

Oh, that's right.

I've been advocating cannibalism for years and no one has paid any attention.

But someone famous says it...

For the last time. We don't care how you dispose of your victims, as long as you clean up the mess afterwards.

[Succubus]

...We concede that it isn't a concept we have the mental capacity to understand, in the same way an ant doesnt have the brain to understand math. That's why we call it a mystery, as you said. The communion host still looks, tastes, and smells like bread, and is processed in our bodies like bread. But we belive that in some way that we can't grasp, God is present there...

If you don't have the remotest idea how it works then what possible reason do you have for accepting it as an absolute truth?

These dudes: Catholic Bishops Appear to have a handle on it. Send them an E-mail and ask for some clarification.

...In order for the whole Christ to be present—body, blood, soul, and divinity—the bread and wine cannot remain…

...Thus in the Eucharist the bread ceases to be bread in substance, and becomes the Body of Christ, while the wine ceases to be wine in substance, and becomes the Blood of Christ...

[emjay]

@emjay
That's alot of thought.  ;  

It's a powerful and compelling taboo, isn't it?

Yeah, sorry about that... one day - though not today obviously - I'll find that elusive balance between a one liner and a wall of text  It seems no matter where I write, I always end up falling afoul of character limits... coincidence? I just wish I could be concise... even when I've got a lot to say.

I don't know what to say to that other than yes, it is... but from what you've said so far I can't quite tell where you stand on it?... especially after shitting on all of my biological ideas (which I have no problem with, by the way... glad to be educated )

[The Grand Nudger]

Where I stand?  Oh, buddy, I aint gonna eat nobody.  If I see somebody eating somebody Imma shoot that person..because zamby!  It's a compelling taboo.  That guy awhile back who was eating someones face on the freeway or whatevs..I'm surprised no one ran him over then backed over him -and- the person he was chewing on for good measure.  

Not on my watch, zambys!

That said.....the cannibalism taboo, as compelling as it is to most of us....isn't grounded in any biological reality. It's a bit like the notion that eli whitney was black or mandela died in prison....only older.  That we think taboo is derived from some underlying biological reality is, itself, another example of something like eli and mandela and cannibalism.  Widely believed to be true, to "make sense"..but wholly un-grounded in reality.  In this case the mistaken assumption serves to justify taboo, and to then justify specific taboos.  

The cheeseburger taboo...the blasphemy taboo, the idolatry taboo.....on and on the list goes. We adhere to some, and not to others, the taboos are all cultural and our adherence (or discarding them) is similarly cultural. Now, I won't eat people.. if you ask me why..I won't say "because kuru" or "because does weird shit to your bloodism disease". I'll provide a flatly cultural, social, and personal reason. I know it wouldn't kill me or cause civilization to collapse or turn us into zambys or any of that. The value of taboo, in essence..is normative, not descriptive. It provides the reason in ignorance, in the absence of reason, or even in the face of reason..telling us "never do this" even if it seems like a good idea in the moment..say..you're a member of the donner party (none of which got kuru ).

[Silver]

Where I stand?  Oh, buddy, I aint gonna eat nobody.  If I see somebody eating somebody Imma shoot that person..because zamby!

Is that your gay lisp providing a spicy flare to the pronunciation of zombie?

[The Grand Nudger]

Please, everything I do is super hetero by virtue of my overwhelming manliness.  I could be blowing a guy and it would be the most hetero thing you've ever seen.  

[emjay]

Please, everything I do is super hetero by virtue of my overwhelming manliness.  I could be blowing a guy and it would be the most hetero thing you've ever seen.  

Thanks for the image