Seems like an advanced race of aliens would be able to clone and farm their own humans.
Maybe they prefer free range humans? Perhaps all the consumed PFAS and microplastics give Earth humans a certain “je ne sais quoi” that the aliens can’t reproduce on their home planet.
The ethical dilemma makes it taste better!
See my post earlier about the Larry Niven story.
Lucky for us, we have a Supreme Court that wouldn’t see anything cruel or unusual about feeding prisoners to space aliens.
Thus opening them up to lawsuits from humans for theft of trade secrets…we’d clean them out!
Well, unless they got fed up with our annoying legal shenanigans and decided to get fed up a different way…
No one has ever said if they kill us humans first, or feed live, piece by bloody piece, with the screaming and the HOYVIN-GLAVIN!
It’s an important point.
For those of you asking for details about what the Kanamits want, that’s up to you to try to negotiate with them. Keep in mind they may or may not be acting in good faith.
Welcome to how most of the prisoners of Guantanamo got there.
Or good taste.
Whether or not we taste good.
…or are less filling!
If their science is sufficiently advanced, and depraved, they could just harvest bits off live humans, and then re-grow them.
Without anesthetic. Oh my.
Oh, come on now, sure, they’re flesh-eating alien monsters who are blackmailing us into a morally and ethically corrupt bargain, but they’re not barbarians!
They drink human blood from dainty little cups with their little alien pinkie sticking out.
No.
Derrick Bell wrote about exactly how this would go down in practice.
Point to you good gentlebeing!
-slinks off to plot some horrible, food-based revenge!-
Whatever it is, serve it cold.
And the season of Angel with Jasmine.
Heh. I thought it was going to go another way, there. I recall a story, can’t find it now, where the aliens offered a similar deal, except that what they wanted to do was have humanity prove it was “disciplined” enough to deserve the technology, by making all the fat people lose weight and conform to an idealized body type.
Turns out, it was a test to see if we’d act morally enough to refuse to accept such a biased deal.