# Thought experiment: Aliens want to eat humans. Design a humane way they can.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-aliens-want-to-eat-humans-design-a-humane-way-they-can/635536>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 22, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-aliens-want-to-eat-humans-design-a-humane-way-they-can/635536 "2012-09-22T21:29:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-aliens-want-to-eat-humans-design-a-humane-way-they-can/635536/21 "2012-09-23T03:12:08Z")

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It was just to specify that they cannot be vat grown.

However something that not many (any?) answers have addressed here is that usually it’s young animals that taste nice. Waiting for people to die, especilaly if they die of natural causes, is probably not gonna lead to tasty meat…

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-aliens-want-to-eat-humans-design-a-humane-way-they-can/635536/22 "2012-09-23T03:21:16Z")

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> [@Simple\_Linctus](#):
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> However something that not many (any?) answers have addressed here is that usually it’s young animals that taste nice. Waiting for people to die, especilaly if they die of natural causes, is probably not gonna lead to tasty meat…

Hell, people will eat 36,000 year old frozen mammoth just to say they’ve done it. All you have to do to get people to eat lousy things is say it’s rare, and charge more.

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**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-aliens-want-to-eat-humans-design-a-humane-way-they-can/635536/23 "2012-09-23T03:48:58Z")

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> [@Ranchoth](#):
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> Hell, people will eat 36,000 year old frozen mammoth just to say they’ve done it. All you have to do to get people to eat lousy things is say it’s rare, and charge more.

Wait until the aliens find out about the humans who have been eaten and excreted by civets! Somebody’s gonna get rich.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-aliens-want-to-eat-humans-design-a-humane-way-they-can/635536/24 "2012-09-23T06:44:10Z")

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> [@Simple\_Linctus](#):
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> It was just to specify that they cannot be vat grown.
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> However something that not many (any?) answers have addressed here is that usually it’s young animals that taste nice. Waiting for people to die, especilaly if they die of natural causes, is probably not gonna lead to tasty meat…

See, and I don’t care for veal.

Alrighty then. Do aborted fetuses count?

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