No ghoulishness intended!

How do you know the meat you buy at the grocery store isn’t human meat?

None of us have ever tasted it (safe from thos placenta eating creeps). So how do we know that weirdly mild tasting piece of veil wasn’t human flesh?

there is billions of people, at what point does it become too tempting for corporations/organized crime to harvest the meat off of dead humans and sell it?

They screw us over every chance they get why not this way?

postscriptum: again i am not interested in canibalism but i am very worried that we might some day reach a point were economic pressures and oportunity become to tempting for bad actors. Maybe this is already happening.

  • lyth@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago
    • any organization found to be using human meat in their product would be massively and permanently screwed, except maybe north korea
    • human meat is a bad choice economically because farm animals have centuries of selective breeding behind them to make them ideal for consumption (pretty horrible but that’s how it’s worked out) and humans put all kinds of toxic stuff in their bodies which makes eating any human a gamble
    • I don’t eat veal so my risk of eating a person by accident is further diminished Edit:
    • Eating people also leaves a paper trail, you would need to source bodies from prisons or mortuaries, and that couldn’t be kept secret for long. This kind of logistical mess and legal risk makes it even less likely for even the worst corporations to pursue
  • allywilson
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    11 months ago

    I haven’t put much thought into it, so here’s a hot take…

    There isn’t the infrastructure in-place to do this economically. We’ve invested thousands of years slaughtering cattle to get the process as tight and efficient as possible. Abbatoirs are factories. To do this with humans wouldn’t work.

    Second thought, there was a scandal in the UK (and Ireland I think) a few years ago when horse meat was detected in some products that were processed in factories in continental Europe (the UK nor Ireland eats horse meat, but some countries do). I’m pretty sure detecting human meat would kick off a bigger stink.