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There are plenty of humans who are not self-aware, yet we do not eat them. And it looks like US meat consumption is trending downward at WWII rates (http://www.
by asciimo 11y ago
There are plenty of humans who are not self-aware, yet we do not eat them. And it looks like US meat consumption is trending downward at WWII rates (http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2012/highlights25 http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2012/highlights2...).
- fixermark 11y agoAs it stands right now: yes, cannibalism is more-or-less universally considered abhorrent in a world where (a) all sources are more-or-less indisputably considered a pre-, current-, or post-person and (b) eating wild human flesh is a short trip to an entire fascinating category of otherwise-non-communicable diseases. The cannibalism question may become a bit more complicated in a future that holds the potential of carefully-monitored and maintained cloned muscle tissue from a donor cell culture that is itself never hooked up to a brain. ;)