FFS!!! Scientist suggests eating human flesh to fight climate change

[RKP5637]

"Scientist suggests eating human flesh to fight climate change" (originally published by" Fox News)

https://nypost.com/2019/09/09/scientist-suggests-eating-human-flesh-to-fight-climate-change/

A Swedish scientist speaking at Stockholm summit last week offered an unusual possible tactic in combating global climate change: eating human flesh.

Stockholm School of Economics professor and researcher Magnus Soderlund reportedly said he believes eating human meat, derived from dead bodies, might be able to help save the human race if only a world society were to “awaken the idea.”

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. "The study published by Dr. H. Lecter..... " nt

[RKP5637]

5. Yep, Dr. H. Lecter, for sure!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Soylent Green.

I look forward to Professor Soderlund's cookbook, "To Serve Man."

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, Rod Serling, sure knew the future of mankind!

[hunter]

20. It was the awesome Harry Harrison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_%28writer%29

He frequently wrote in the style of right wing militaristic space opera hacks but he was mocking them.

[RKP5637]

38. "To Serve Man" was a Twilight Zone Episode by Rod Sterling.

[OriginalGeek]

59. There just aren't enough superlatives

to contain all the wonder and greatness of Harry Harrison.

[ginnyinWI]

11. "Soylent Green is people!!!" nt

[Flaleftist]

3. Well, I certainly am never having dinner at his house. nt

[Yavin4]

4. This is the kind of crap that Climate Change deniers will use as propaganda.

"See. See. This is a conspiracy by liberals to make us cannibals."

[RKP5637]

7. And the sad part is they will believe it, hook, line and sinker! We'll be seeing tRump tweets soon!

[Miigwech]

8. ... but eating the flesh of immigrants

would be verboten?

[Hekate]

9. Wait wait don't tell me. His name is Johnathon Swift & he calls it A Modest Proposal. nt

[NightWatcher]

37. I had the same idea. Scanned this for that reference

Smart DUers never let me down.

Yay for literacy.

[tikka]

10. eating human flesh can cause a type of prion disease - fatal

Dying from eating human flesh would definitely cut the population and human caused climate change.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. 1) all prion disease is fatal 2) the last Kuru death was 10+ years ago. Long pig poses no more risk

than cow, from what I can see on the CDC website.

Having no plans to eat any animals, human or otherwise, I have no proverbial "dog" in this fight - but we should be honest about the science vs the emotion of the issue.

[madinmaryland]

12. Calling Jeffrey Dahmer.

[Caliman73]

13. Dumb idea. There are other sources of protein that can be had other than human flesh.

We can eat plant based protein, we can eat insects, there are companies looking at growing meat from stem cells greatly decreasing the need for livestock ranching.

Perhaps it was a "let's shock them into alternatives" type of presentation.

AND...why is it the economics professors always seem to be the ones coming up with these crazy assed ideas?

[UniteFightBack]

14. Hard to believe this 'idea' came from a reputable scientist. nt

[Joe941]

43. Well he is no longer reputable.

[albacore]

15. Yum....

[milestogo]

16. That makes eating bugs sound much better.

[Takket]

17. 150000 people die every day

Let’s assume the average person weights 175 lbs and about half of that is “edible” (lets say 90lbs)

There are 7.6 billion people alive today.

So 7.6 billion/(90*150000) leaves over 500 people for every pound of meat ....

So in conclusion.... THIS IS STILL STUPID

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. easy solution -- eat 'em alive!

Corollary to Darwin: survival goes to the fastest teeth




In other news... 'scientist' claims windmills cause cow farts and what the world needs now is coal-fired cars.

[Takket]

33. Why didn't I think of that...

[eShirl]

18. that's how you get zombies

[roamer65]

19. Worldwide one child policy is the solution.

China had that one thing right, except women should not have to bear the brunt of it.

Encourage men to get vasectomies after one child. Big cash incentives to get it done.

[Lock him up.]

26. China ended up with 2 males for each female...

Because they would abort female babies in waiting for males who were considered stronger workers or sh!t reasons like that, and then China ended up with a huge sexually-frustrated majority of adult males who could not find a bride (here, we call them incels... and they can become violent...)

[Lock him up.]

28. That policy of 1 child did not work well.

Their tradition of offsprings taking care of their aging parents screwed it up.

[Dorian Gray]

34. No worldwide policy of limiting children

It's fascist.

It doesn't sound as bad as EATING HUMANS, but it's bad.

(Disclaimer: My husband and I chose to have one child. But that was our choice. It was not imposed upon us.)

[roamer65]

47. Then behold the hell called overpopulation.

War will be the end result of the depletion of resources.

I think we will use nukes near the end.

[Dorian Gray]

48. I still don't want any government

telling me how many children I can or can not have. Or anybody.

Educating people about family planning is good. Imposing rules and forced abortions/strilizations.... not good. Forced births are just as bad. No to all of that.

[caraher]

21. "Scientist"

They identify him as an economist, which perhaps explains why his science is so dismal...

[BlueStater]

23. We could eat Trump.

He barely qualifies as a human being, so it won't be too awful.

[lunatica]

24. He's loaded up with who knows what in those hemberders

Eek!

[Dorian Gray]

35. He's probably chock full of beta carotene.

[Initech]

54. Why? He's pure fat.

He wouldn't pass a USDA inspection. Needs more muscle, that's where the tasty meat is.

[JHB]

25. You realize this is a "keep the FOX base at full foam" story, right?

I don't know what the guy actually said, since what we're reading here was filtered through conservative media like the NYPost and The Epoch Times, but their tactic is pretty standard: create a headline starring a scientist (but not one in a climate-related field) saying something nutty about climate change.

Their audience, not a bunch inclined to ask "is that actually true" when there's something disparaging about people they like to disparage, laps up the takeaway: "See? This is what kind of nutbars people talking about global warming are!"

[Lock him up.]

27. +1

Should not be posted on DU IMHO.

[RKP5637]

42. Please see post #40. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. "Professor of Marketing and Head of Center for Consumer Marketing" - "scientist"? Ha.

Magnus Söderlund is Professor of Marketing and Head of Center for Consumer Marketing at Stockholm School of Economics. Magnus does research in consumer behavior-related areas, often with experimental methods, and with an interest in how consumers are affected by various marketing activities.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Magnus_Soederlund

"Social scientist", if you're being generous. This is not someone who knows about climate change, and don't think for a moment he's done a calculation that shows there is a need to recycle the constituent chemicals of human bodies in this way. He is, however, an expert on marketing who knows who to get publicity.

[RandiFan1290]

31. Right wing garbage

[Cerridwen]

32. This is coming from epoch times via fox. Why are you quoting them as valid?

Do I think some wakefield-wanna-be scientist said this shit? Yeah.

Do I think anyone besides the 5th columnist epoch times and the flat earth society takes it seriously beyond normal human degeneracy?

Fuck no.

[RKP5637]

40. Where did I say it was valid? I guess I should have added the below.

It was absurd, but many DU'ers missed the point.

BTW- it was discussed by many sources ...

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=rPp4XYmNLKWd5wKD1YD4Bg&q=scientist+suggest+eating+human+meat&oq=scientist+suggests&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i324i10j0i5i30l2j0i8i30l2j0i30.1812.13516..16206...0.0..0.242.3187.11j14j2......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0j0i131j0i10j0i13i10j0i13i10i30j0i13i5i10i30j0i13j0i13i30j0i8i13i30j0i22i30.t-Gba3xtm98

[aka-chmeee]

36. Well, actually it sounds like A Modest Proposal to me nt

[tenderfoot]

39. NY Post gotta NY Post

eom

[RKP5637]

41. That was just one of many reporting it ... it's absurd, but many DU'ers missed the point!

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=rPp4XYmNLKWd5wKD1YD4Bg&q=scientist+suggest+eating+human+meat&oq=scientist+suggests&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i324i10j0i5i30l2j0i8i30l2j0i30.1812.13516..16206...0.0..0.242.3187.11j14j2......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0j0i131j0i10j0i13i10j0i13i10i30j0i13i5i10i30j0i13j0i13i30j0i8i13i30j0i22i30.t-Gba3xtm98

[backtoblue]

44. Not enough people die to provide enough meat for any community.

This is not only abhorently disgusting, its completely unfeasible.

Add a family consent on the deceased to be eaten and there is NO way a civilized society would ever "warm" to this gross idea.

[RKP5637]

45. It's incredible. Absolutely absurd and abhorrently disgusting! n/t

[lunasun]

46. 50 ways to eat your lover

[Initech]

49. I'll have a soylent burger with a side of soylent fries and a soylent cola to drink.

Maybe throw in a soylent shake for dessert.

[RKP5637]

50. Can you imagine, what's for dinner tonight?

Grandma!

[Initech]

52. Or we could live in a world where Soylent Cola exists!

[RKP5637]

55. ...

[snowybirdie]

51. Soylent Green

[nocoincidences]

53. What is scary about this

is that in a catastrophic collapse of climate and society, it won't be just a choice anymore.

Threads, the Road and every other apocalyptic movie that gets into graphic detail, presents this as a major deadly issue for the humans who survive.

I really don't ever want to face this possibility.

[RKP5637]

56. It is, and it's happened before in history. n/t

[Newest Reality]

57. 2050

The euthanasia parlors of 2050 will probably have a rendering checkbox which will then make the service free or at a discount.

[captain queeg]

58. There's talk of composting human bodies

I think that would be better than burials and creation. But I don’t think anything done to human bodies will have a large effect on climate change. Even cremations wouldn’t add up to a huge amount of gas bunef compared to electrical generation, though maybe the two could be combined for some increased efficient. Right now they are just burned and the heat & resultant gases just go out the chimney.