Richard Dawkins wants to eat me.

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Over the weekend, famed atheist Richard Dawkins had a novel suggestion for the future: eating human meat.

Dawkins was responding to a story in the Independent which described “clean meat,” or, in other words, meat grown in laboratories made from stem cells harvested from living cattle.

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In 2014, the animal rights activists at PETA offered $1 million to the first scientist to produce and sell in vitro chicken meat.

But Dawkins envisions himself as more far-seeing than everyone else. Hence this tweet: Tissue culture “clean meat” already in 2018? I’ve long been looking forward to this.

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What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism? An interesting test case for consequentialist morality versus “yuck reaction” absolutism.

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Dawkins is the same guy who said in 2017, “When I see cattle lorries, I think of the railway wagons to Auschwitz.”

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Once you’ve literally equated animals with humans (not hard if you don’t believe humans were created in God’s image because you don’t believe in God), why shouldn’t you champion eating human meat?

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