Swedish behavioral scientist Magnus Söderlund has suggested that eating other people after they die could be a means of combatting climate change.
The scientist mentioned the possibility of cannibalism during a broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 this week about a fair in Stockholm regarding “food of the future”.
Söderlund is set to hold seminars at the event, entitled “Gastro Summit — about the future of food” where he intends to discuss the possibility of eating people in the name of cutting down greenhouse emissions.
According to his research, the main problem with the idea is the widespread taboo of eating human flesh and said that conservative attitudes could make it hard to convince Swedes at large to take up the practice of cannibalism.
Tissue culture “clean meat” already in 2018? I’ve long been looking forward to this.https://t.co/p41NR3NEZn
What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism? An interesting test case for consequentialist morality versus “yuck reaction” absolutism.— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) March 3, 2018
Regardless of the likely immense resistance to the idea of eating people, Söderlund said it was important to examine different options in the name of sustainability.
Söderlund is not alone in his call to reject the taboo of cannibalism. Last year, noted atheist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins advocated for lab-grown meat and suggested it may be used to “overcome our taboo against cannibalism”.
Psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University also questioned the taboo on cannibalism in an article for Newsweek last month but ultimately did not endorse breaking it.
Cannibalism is not the only “alternative meat” advocated by climate change activists. Many have embraced plant-based meat imitations, while others have put their support behind “meat” made of insects as a way to cut down on greenhouse emissions and save on land and water use.
A YouGov poll in the UK found that 37 percent of respondents thought that the number of food products containing insects would grow in the next ten years.
Last year in the German city of Aachen, shoppers were invited to try burgers made of buffalo worms with mixed reactions from the public.
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We talking about Solent Green here? this scientists sounds like they should be added to the list of Mad Scientists i mean this nut has a few screws that are loose and need to be tightened
Gives a new meaning to “steak holders” at climate conferences, and in depth concern as in “watch your a*s”
I suggest that Magnus Söderlund might alternatively consider processed human digestive byproducts. There is, no doubt, considerable nutrient that could be derived. So, my advice to Magnus is: “eat s**t!”
Well that would be a quick way to weight loss .
Maybe pre-order some Hollywood hypocrite . A whole new skip the dish option .
Bernie does want to help take down baby numbers in Africa … you know to help the women .
Seriously a very very sick idea but I can see it making the Democrat platform . More progressive ideas .
Number one on the human menu…
Magnus Söderlund steak tartar
Isn’t it about time we called the Democrat Party what they really are .
The Green Socialist Party …USA .
A seven hour marketing re brand paid for by CNN .
I love all those oh so Democratic statements that begin with :
“Well when I am President ….on my first day, my first hour I’m going to nationalize the energy sector , ban straws, and make sure there are mandatory abortions to control the population . Then I’m having a veggy sandwich with
beet juice . In the afternoon I will await further instructions from AL Gore .
Well that puts a new twist on Swedish meat balls .
If cannibalism is acceptable, what about the idea of killing people for their meat. Don’t forget that humans are predators.
Some wondered out loud if this is a prank on skeptics. I think that this story may be the follow up to banning plastic straws. The eco – anarchists are testing the strength of their propaganda network.
Will their zombies bite?
It was either in the late 60’s or early 70’s that a wealthy man formed an organization to cloth pets. He made the claim that naked pets were indecent exposure. The idea is that it would be part of a pet’s owner’s responsibility to cloth the pets just as it was to feed them. He from an organization and people joined it. Others endorsed the idea but it was always small number of people. He then revealed that the whole thing was a hoax. He wanted to see if people would go for a truly stupid idea. With anthropological climate change a great number of people have gone for a truly stupid idea. This is costing $1.5 trillion a year, millions of bird and bat deaths, thousands of fuel poverty deaths a year, and harm to economies.
David Lewis . You mean like in Hunger Games , make it a fun sport like trophy hunting . Don’t rule anything out when the crazies get the keys with the USA turning hard nut jobs in the Greenocrat Party .
Can you imagine the gang of ten making these election threats even ten
years ago ? Threaten oil and gas executives , nationalize energy , eliminate the
internal combustion engine , encourage mass population elimination . and the deep thinking promise to ban straws . What else would they ban ?
Thank you CNN for the Democrat re branding party ! Best thing you’ve done since Trump was elected .