{"id":305645,"date":"2024-03-03T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305645"},"modified":"2024-03-03T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:53:15","slug":"cannibalism-to-save-the-world-new-scientist-opens-that-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305645","title":{"rendered":"Cannibalism to save the world? New Scientist opens that door\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Next step: sustainable human steak?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

They don\u2019t mention the \u201csustainable\u201d word, but you know they want to. Right from the start<\/a> they\u2019re selling it to us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethically, cannibalism<\/a> poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can\u2019t it be left to feed the hungry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why can\u2019t we feed our bodies to the homeless indeed, apart from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease<\/a>,  prions, parasites, heavy metals? And if  cannibalism pops up on the menu often enough, who knows what other problem will pop up on the radar? Things at the top of the food chain (and we are at the top) tend to accumulate all kinds of unwanted chemicals, like lead, PCBs, and pollutants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention the spiritual questions and the mental health issues. Who knows? 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to dystopia. We can devalue human lives, but think of the cows we\u2019ll save!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the CultureWar continues<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tut. Tut. Tut. New Scientist gently chides us for being the sort of modern prejudiced people who think cannibalism is taboo. Its just your colonial roots that do that to you, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t like cannibals you are just a racist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our aversion has been explained in various ways. Perhaps it is down to the fact that, in Western religious traditions, bodies are seen as the seat of the soul and have a whiff of the sacred. Or maybe it is culturally ingrained, with roots in early modern colonialism, when racist stereotypes of the cannibal were concocted to justify subjugation<\/strong>. These came to represent the \u201cother\u201d to Western societies \u2013 and revulsion towards cannibalism became a tenet of their moral conscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once human bodies are reduced to being meat to feed the poor, euthanasia is almost a gift to the world, really. And science is just, well, one of many ideologies, not something special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Scientist output is just another article chipping away at the pillars of Western Civilization. The fact they don\u2019t even consider pollutants and diseases, nor the soul sapping mental health issues is just embarrassing for a supposedly \u201cscientific\u201d magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For whatever its worth, after half a billion years of evolution, predators almost never eat other predators, and most species don\u2019t eat their own kind. Perhaps there is a reason\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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