Ethical Cannibalism?

[JirinPanthosa]

If nobody is harmed nonconsentually it wouldn't be immoral, but it'd be gross.

 

[LordMudd]

Eat me. You're messin with the order. You don't go messin with the order. Eat me!


CCC.

 

[farmkid]

Cloning of other forms of animal probably will be a major source of meat (and dairy, etc.) in the future, though, for all that this is controversial (and illegal) at present. This process was first acknowledged in 2010 and had to have already been underway for some time at that point. I don't think it will stop.

Meat from cloned animals is already approved for human consumption. There's really no difference in the meat that comes from a cow produced naturally and one produced by cloning, except the one produced by cloning cost a lot more.

 

[farmkid]

If all you need to have a steak is an ethical resolution, then consider that humans are an inherently selfish and invasive species, so when we don't have a use for animals (such as to kill for meat, gather resources like wool or milk from, or to keep as pets) then we have shown that we will not leave space for their habitats. By eating a steak, you may have contributed to the death of one animal - but you are helping to preserve their species as a whole.

One must also keep in mind that many of our domestic species only exist because they are useful to us. Domestic cows, for example, are derived from the Auroch, a wild ox that has been extinct for a few hundred years and is rather different from modern cattle. It's not like cows would just go back to living in nature and be happy if we stopped eating them. Their numbers would drastically diminish, most breeds would probably disappear, and the species as a whole might even go extinct after some time.

That raises an interesting question. If the cattle population dropped to very low levels because we started growing all our beef in a dish, would they be put on the endangered species list? Or would it be different because they are not a natural species?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ That's a nice idea for a Science Fiction story.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Do you think people would clone meat from themselves?

Would it be like being the one to provide the thanksgiving turkey that year, you clone yourself and stuff yourself and present yourself to your loved ones.

"You're soooo delicious, this is better than Aunt Carol tasted last year!"

 

[scotpens]

If nobody is harmed nonconsentually it wouldn't be immoral, but it'd be gross.

I'd reserve judgment on eating cloned human meat until I've actually tried it.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

If nobody is harmed nonconsentually it wouldn't be immoral, but it'd be gross.

I'd reserve judgment on eating cloned human meat until I've actually tried it.

I like how you've turned being repulsed by the idea of cannibalism into a lack of open-mindedness.

 

[scotpens]

I'd reserve judgment on eating cloned human meat until I've actually tried it.

I like how you've turned being repulsed by the idea of cannibalism into a lack of open-mindedness.

Hey, I'll try anything once.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'd like to think I would try cloned human meat. It certainly hasn't got the ethical considerations that other meats I've eaten have attached to them.. but this whole thread does make me throw up in my mouth a little.

 

[Kor]

I think it would be more ethical than things like veal and lamb. And I love veal and lamb.

Kor

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Oh yeah it is totes ethical

It's just gross!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Totes?

 

[RoJoHen]

Totally.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Perhaps we could clone Jesus from DNA on the Turin shroud. The sacrament of the Eucharist could then be made non-dependent on transubstantiation.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

You know who would love this? The Ferengi.

 

[RJDiogenes]

How did Jesus' DNA get on Alan Turing's shroud?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

How did Jesus' DNA get on Alan Turing's shroud?

Hah - that's probably some obscure form of Freudian slip.

Shroud of Turing

 

[RJDiogenes]