Comments on: Serious Question: Would You Eat Soylent Green?

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By: thespacephantom

thespacephantom — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:45:49 +0000

I’d eat it in all of the scenarios, except the fourth one. I don’t see any ethical problems with eating it when I’m starving, but for some reason, it seems to be a waste or something if I’d eat it when I wasn’t on the verge of painful death. No idea why.

By: David

David — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:21:54 +0000

I think Discover had an article a few years ago about lab-grown meat, saying that it only takes a few cells to start, and presenting the even weirder idea that some people might prefer to eat meat grown from THEIR OWN CELLS! (the author, if I recall correctly, thought some vegetarians might feel this option was more ethical. To me it just sounds even weirder than any of the options presented here, but in response to scenarios given here I don’t see anything wrong with eating lab-grown human meat, nor any type of human meat from people not forceably killed. I don’t know if my appetite would be up to it if I had other food available, though.

By: Reaper

Reaper — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:46:43 +0000

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By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:23:21 +0000

Definitely. The “humane” criteria actually makes it sound better that current readily available meats. I’ve lived on a farm, and while I’m not keen on killing my own food, I really do prefer to know it’s lived a good life, if for no other reason than happy meat really does taste better. So sure, if people are going on down that road by choice* and nobody suffers, why on earth wouldn’t we eat them?

…though I would probably have to stare at it for a while before I got the nerve to eat it. I mean, yanno. Instinct.

*Personally, I want to be made into a book when I die, with my skin as binding. The rest of me I intend to have cremated and made into pencils, so that my friends can write stories about me. Seriously. Anybody know a good taxidermist?

By: Andy G

Andy G — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:17:01 +0000

Yes to all! We’re made out of meat, after all: the difference is a cultural thing, which makes it no less ephemeral than America’s Next Top Model (and a lot more meaty). Sign me up for some tasty cubes.

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By: destardi

destardi — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:51:16 +0000

No
No
Maybe
No

By: Jarons20

Jarons20 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:30:30 +0000

Sadly what that movie also implies is that the rioters and dissidents are also being scooped up in those people trucks, gassed, and made into green, leaving a docile, green eating populace that wont bother the higher ups as long as they get their weekly. I imagine vertical farms, heavily defended for the production of strawberries and grain, and I would work my way to the top of those with access, because I know the secret and I can’t bare it! “Soylent Green is People”