Guest essay by Eric Worrall
I guess we now know what greens really mean when they demand less food waste.
Swedish Scientist Proposes Cannibalism to Fight Climate Change
CHRIS TOMLINSON
6 Sep 2019Swedish behavioural scientist Magnus Söderlund has suggested that eating other people after they die could be a means of combatting climate change.
The scientist mentioned the possibility of cannibalism during a broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 this week about a fair in Stockholm regarding “food of the future”.
Söderlund is set to hold seminars at the event, entitled “Gastro Summit — about the future of food” where he intends to discuss the possibility of eating people in the name of cutting down greenhouse emissions.
According to his research, the main problem with the idea is the widespread taboo of eating human flesh and said that conservative attitudes could make it hard to convince Swedes at large to take up the practice of cannibalism.
Tissue culture “clean meat” already in 2018? I’ve long been looking forward to this.https://t.co/p41NR3NEZn
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) March 3, 2018
What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism? An interesting test case for consequentialist morality versus “yuck reaction” absolutism.…
I think on some level we all suspected it was only a matter of time before a climate fanatic seriously suggested such perversion.
I can understand someone in extreme circumstances making an impossible choice, like the survivors of Flight 571 which crashed on an ice field in the Andes. But to suggest that cannibalism is something the world should seriously consider, as just another conservation measure; how has the world come to this?
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More proof that those on the far left are certifiably insane !
More proof that dog-whistling is effective. Well played Eric, this should get the hounds-a-howlin’.
“Greens” lol.
Attack the reporter and not the wacko that says it or the concept of the sick stuff they propose. Hearing dog whistles where there are none. Trying to defend the indefensible. Proof that alarmist academic Cool Aid is just a deadly to the function of the brain as that handed out at Jonestown.
I recall making a comment here about all this doom and gloom maybe leading to an outcome such as that in the Movie “Soylent Green”.
Magnus, mate, it was a joke.
The solution is to actually sell soylent green. The movie was based in volunteers. Eating volunteer ecofacists for lunch could be appealing to some.
there IS actually a company called Soylent;-)
and wasnt the New guinea example of Kuru from eating the dead rellies enough proof its not wise to eat your own species?
the fact most animals also dont do that is a pretty good indicator its NOT a smart thing..the few monkeys etc that do? well ebola and other issues may well be spread via that method as others maybe the monkeys doing that are also suffering from the effects OF cannibalism ie their version of Kuru BSE CJD
catching and assessing the brains of those that do might be enlightening indeed
Climate change is People!
So are we all in agreement that “climate” alarmism (aka neo-Ehrlichian Malthusianism!) has officially jumped the shark?
This is rubbish. Every one knows that young cattle are much better eating than old cattle. Who wants old stringy meat.
How long would it take for a change in meat to young people?
throw in the meds antibiotics chemo drugs etc that the dead all copped beforehand… none of which would( or should) be entering our more normal meat supplies.
The rich would eat fresh young roadkill, the poor would eat the neighbour’s granny.
Fresh young roadkill? I vote we start with the bicylists, PLEEEESE! Should be a bounty on how many you can take with a snowplow . . . need to marinate a long time, though. Stringy buggers.
Are you suggesting that abortion should be illegal because mmm, tasty?
The lefties are going to have a meltdown over that.
“But saving the world”
“But inalienable body rights”,
“But…!!!!
I seem to recall nasty little prion diseases result from consuming the flesh of one’s own species, especially if one is a ruminant. OTOH, let’s let them try it themselves first for an experiment, and see what happens . . . might be sporting!
I was in the Oz Navy seconded to the UK Navy during 1980-1981 and am still not allowed to donate blood due to them having an outbreak of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease.
Why us rabbits are not allowed to donate blood is beyond me
Oh I dunno, perhaps it could be an idea with merit.
Just remember your dining etiquette and “Start with the Left”
Has No one though of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”?
https://www.bartleby.com/topics/A-Modest-Proposal-Satire-Essay
https://www.britannica.com/topic/A-Modest-Proposal
Could this be satire poked at the greens?
If I recall my history lessons, Swift was initially publicly lambasted by knee jerk reactions as well, much to the chagrin of those who leapt to take umbridge too quickly.
A Modest Proposal was the first thing I thought of 🙂
Save the planet – eat a leftist.
Oh no, I’ll be eaten with Bobeque sauce.
Sorry. I had to.
Regards,
Bob
I rather think this might lead to arguments.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rsmd7
If we do resort to this for meat, definitely starting with the vegans since they eat only plants and prey animals only eat plants.
You’ll taste tisdaliciously.
GROANNNNNN
You win. I can’t top that one.
How are you doing Bob? Good to hear from you again.
No one is going to want to eat the old, as they would be too tough, if emaciated, too fatty, if obese, and likely laced with medical chemical. No one is going to want to eat the diseased for obvious reasons. That leaves healthy people, including accident victims and volunteers. As extreme liberals tend to join or follow insane agendas, they could probably be talked into volunteering, ignoring the fact that many might be vegans, which might impact food quality.
For a “scientists” to think and spout this way, the public’s response would be that things must be worse than they think (as nothing bad is happening to them or elsewhere that is not normal) because this scientist is talking this way. The public puts much too much trust in scientists and, when they hear absurd things, they should demand answers to serious questions and force the scientist to defend the position. This behavioral scientist knows little, probably of how climate and our various metrics work and simply believes that AGW is real and must be dealt with. All too many academicians have taken AGW on faith.
This guy needs to be assessed for psychopathy and placed in a position where he cannot hurt society.
The Donner Party lives on in lunatic circles…
Forget Donner, rudolph, and blitzen. Think progress. Cannibalism, including consumption not limited to dietary ingestion of carbon-based material from formerly human remains. It’s real, and it’s normalized.
The Donner Party Cookbook …
https://www.amazon.com/Donner-Party-Cookbook-Survival-Hastings/dp/0972221735
Marv
Yeah!
“Swedish behavioural scientist Magnus Söderlund has suggested that eating other people after they die could be a means of combatting climate change.”
Why wait?
Two cannibals were sitting by a fire and one says,”Gee,I hate my mother-in-law.”
And the other says,”So, try the potatoes.”
Did you hear about the cannibal that passed his mother-in-law in the woods?
‘Mummy, Mummy! I hate my sister’s guts!’
‘Well, leave them on the side of the plate dear.’
C 1970
Donner cuisine.
https://www.seeker.com/what-the-donner-party-ate-in-final-days-1766080406.html
Well, they say “Eat your greens”. It’d be one way of delivering ourselves from climate hysteria.
Okay! Good one. I wish I’d thought of that. Thanks for the chuckle.
Too lean and stringy
I began to wonder if this post normal stuff was a mass pandemic of some kind. There seems little doubt now. Inventing a dozen or more genders and worrying what bathrooms they should use. Parliamentarians seeking approval from an autistic child (with abusively exploitive parents) who can see CO2 molecules. Franz Kafka and Salvador Dali teamed up would be flummoxed trying to dream up something crazier than today’s everyday reality.
No wonder climateers were ‘at home’ with global discussions about the need to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age and doing tricks with the data to hide temperature declines. No wonder the late Dr. Schneider advised climate scientists to lie about their findings to convince the public the climate was in imminent crisis. No wonder without question they took him up on it.
Well said Gary – we need no further evidence to demonstrate conclusively that:
1. The leaders/wolves are deliberate deceivers who are lying for financial and political gain.
2. The followers/sheep are imbeciles who will embrace any idiotic idea, so long as it fits their deluded personal framework.
You have only to listen to the late-night infomercials for dietary supplements on AM radio to find out how extensive the degree of nonsense is that people will actually believe–and pay real money for.
All you have to do is make the absurd sound “sciency” and people will swallow it like a largemouth bass! All the money we spend on education in the USA is p’d down a rathole, believe me!
The Earth’s condition will never be bad enough for me to consider eating human flesh.
If we limit ourselves to eating global warming fanatics, this might just work.
I would not even make out with one.
You are what you eat.
Just an extension of the ecofascist mindset. Next will be harvesting human sperm and eggs for nutrition.
Several decades late. A concept that is not viable. Close, but not quite. It’s not “proposed” cannibalism, but rather “planned” cannibalism, in progress, to reduce our carbon footprint, promote social justice, exercise rites, and effect redistributive change.
There was a scene in the hilarious Futurama TV series:
Leela: No, that’s called Soylent Cola.
Fry: Does it taste good?
Leela: It varies from person to person.
Soylent Green wasn’t a science fiction movie. It was a prophecy.
Just as I was stunned to learn bible belt church goers play a game called Corn Hole, I was taken aback to learn there is a food popular among greens called Soylent.
Any alarmist who hasn’t made insect protein a staple of their diet is a hypocrite.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6084192842001/#sp=show-clips
“Tucker: The left is highly neurotic about food”
The reality is that the climate change we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. So even if the human race were to suddenly become extinct, climate change would continue unabated.
What is sad is that this is so unimaginative. And plagiarism. Soylent Green.
You can go back much, much further. Jonathon Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” was 1729.
But the Reverend Doctor’s proposal had the merit of being a satire aimed at pricking the conscience of the establishment and “society” folk.
It seems Söderlund’s proposal is serious. What is just as worring are the politicians who insist policies are based on expert scientific advice.
This article makes me want to go to a church and get down on my knees and pray. “How has the world come to this?” indeed!
Mmmm, soylent green…
But the Reverend Doctor’s proposal had the merit of being a satire aimed at pricking the conscience of the establishment and “society” folk.
It seems Söderlund’s proposal is serious. What is just as worring are the politicians who insist policies are based on expert scientific advice.
I find it interesting he is mysteriously short on details of how the business is to be run. Older and diseased humans would have to be culled from the meat herd. Babies are too fatty and puny. A five year old might be OK for a special Chinese or Middle-Eastern feast, and perhaps Muslims might be able to export infidel babies. Of course in Sweden the slaughtered people would have to be halal, and I suspect the Swedes themselves might make the best fodder for others. And I suspect the Swedish males themselves, effeminate, useless, whimpering men that are basically of no use to the world, will likely be the first specimens. Their occupiers have already found use for the women.
Q: “How has the world come to this?”
A: “Public education.”
What are they teaching people in Sweden that has produced Greta Thunberg and now this?
Don’t worry! We’re just slightly ahead for the moment and have been doing left tilting stuff like this since the 1970’s. It started when Olof Palme was Minister of Education between late 1968 and late 1969, just before he became Prime Minister. The rest of the western world will soon catch up … [irony]
The definition of trust is getting oral sex from a cannibal.
Funniest line I ever heard, of course from Rodney.
I once had a girlfriend who liked to play around with Hershey’s chocolate syrup… 😉
Hilarious!
Hmmm, wonder if this ties in with the earlier article on the RV Polarstern.
Did Magnus Söderlund make this proposal from the poop deck?
michael
Hey that’s not a bad idea.
My favorite food is barbecued pork ribs.
The average Swede is blonde and blue eyed; ie: the other white meat.
See where I am going with this?
You’re recapitulating an important plot element from Fried Green Tomatoes.