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April 14, 2005
Pass the Soylent Green, Please!
Who could forget the movie Soylent Green? Charlton Heston in a futuristic drama about overpopulation and food shortages...and Heston's character's horrifying discovery that the remarkable food substance "soylent green" is made up of the dearly departed.
Well, now we have the Cannibal Flesh Donor Program. I kid you not! There is a movement to get people to donate their flesh upon their death to this, er, program, and the food would then be donated to stores, fast food restaurants, and so on.
Unfortunately, we cannot presently offer official donor status. This is due to the fact that the program is currently in its infancy, and we have no one signed on to take our donated flesh at the present time. At the moment, our main goals are establishing a solid basis of support for the program and acquiring legal recognition as a non-profit environmental organization, which could open doors for funding. Once the program has enough support, we will begin lobbying for the legalization of human meat and petitioning restaurants/fast food chains/grocery stores to accept our donations.
Yuck! Do they really think people would eat other people? Matt Stata, a 23-year-old vegan from Canada who is behind the program, thinks it's a great way to stop the "species holocaust" that is happening with today's meat eaters.
As for the objection that legalizing the consumption of human flesh would cause an upswing of serial murderers, the Website has this pithy rejoinder:
Actually, we maintain that this program will have the opposite result. A utilitarian approach to cannibalism such as the one we propose would effectively remove the taboo and fetishism from the act of eating another human, and eventually, make the consumption of human flesh as commonplace as eating animal
flesh is now. Presumably, this objection is more concerned with the crime of murder than with the act of consuming another human being. If human meat is readily available, then the need to kill another person for a meal no longer exists.
Um, hate to break it to you guys, but most serial killers kill for the sake of killing...not eating. There aren't many Jeffrey Dahmers out there, thank goodness.
If nothing else, you can join the mailing list for further developments in this noble quest...that is, as soon as the mailing list materializes. Remember, this program is "in its infancy," and the backers are looking for caring people like YOU to make it happen.
Oh, and don't forget the salt!
Posted by at April 14, 2005 09:29 PM
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I want to throw up. I went through the entire site thinking it was some sort of gag...but it is not!
Great find Pam!
Posted by: Aaron at April 15, 2005 08:41 AM
Some sort of gag...nice double entendre!
Posted by: Pam M. at April 15, 2005 09:24 AM
okay, okay. what is a double entendre??
Posted by: Aaron at April 15, 2005 09:56 AM
looking at the context, I am going to assume it is a trope or stylistic device using a word that has multiple meanings that still fits with any meaning used.
Posted by: Aaron at April 15, 2005 09:58 AM
double entendre
n : an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate
:-)
Posted by: Pam M. at April 15, 2005 10:53 AM
Even if I didn't have philosophical problems with canibalism, it's never a good idea to feed an animal the flesh of it's own or closely related species. Look what happened when cattle where fed beef and mutton offal. Mad Cow Disease.
But what this really is is an attempt to equate cannibalism with meat consumption. I don't buy it. Everything that lives eventually dies and everything that eats kills. It's a matter of what you kill and how the victim is allowed to live before hand. I don't eat veal, but I have nothing against venison.
Posted by: IaintBacchus at April 15, 2005 05:37 PM
You're right on all counts, IaintBacchus. Cannibalism in nature is rare, and there's a reason for it. Not only that but indeed, this is a movement to equate cannibalism with meat eating. I also won't eat veal (or lamb, for that matter), but will eat other things. If you want to be a vegetarian, fine...I was one for ten years...but a trying to make your point with something like this is just ridiculous.
Posted by: Pam Meister at April 15, 2005 09:15 PM