Sexy English Teacher
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- Posted: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:00:12 +0000
MegaTurkey
Neverwise
Isn't there something in the human body or human meat that would cause negative effects if consumed often enough?
-Kali-La-Fae-
Yes actually. I'm like 99% sure thats a thing.
Lord Akhenaton
Well cannibalism wasn't uncommon in low-protein areas of the world. You had a member of your tribe. He/she died. Why not eat the corpse? It was more of a resource management issue than a moral one.
And then it becomes a public health issue, when you account for kuru in Papa New Guinea.
Now, eating the meat of an Apex predator is generally not a good idea, and this is because of how toxins are transmitted throughout a food web. This is a simple fact of biology, animals that eat plants absorb all the toxins within the plants, and the predators of those plants gain the toxins of their prey, etc.
Consuming human meat grown in a lab would have neither of these issues, since prions would not be able to build up because the meat would not be grown through successive "generations". As well, toxins would not build up because the meat is not part of an animal that needs predation to survive.
Because of these facts, the only dangers of eating in-vitro grown human meat would be unknown dangers of in-vitro meat in general.