Richard Dawkins claims we should eat lab-grown human meat

[Rev. Rye]

Why do we need to overcome the taboo of cannibalism?

Curiosity, maybe. He certainly looks interested in the prospect of testing consequentialism and absolutism with it. Of course, it turns out there's not much to question about how human meat tastes. Explorer William Seabrook once met with an African cannibal tribe. They did not let him take part in a ritual, but he eventually decided to take some human flesh (a rump steak, spit-roasted) from a hospital and eat it. Here's what he said:

It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable.

So, just get some veal, pretend it's human, and maybe give the part you're about to eat the name of someone you hate.