Who said Tumor Treats™ had to be a mass-market thing? They could be a specialty product, like truffles or caviar.
"Tumor Treats™ are not only magically delicious, but may “beef” up your immune system to prevent cancer! Protect your health with yummy Tumor Treats™!!"*
*This statement was not evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease, but since you are very gullible and can read between the lines, yes it is. Save yourself now.
Now I’m wondering why placentas from cows, sheep etc never caught on as gourmet food. It at least looks kind of like meat and the advertising writes itself. Placenta! The Meat Of Life!
I’m sure this is a joke post, but are we forgetting that cannibalism is a major taboo pretty much everywhere? I would think that would be have to overcome first. You might as well ask why we don’t cook up the freshly deceased.
N.B. The above is an allusion to the fact that Jackmanni is a pediatrician, one who counsels parents to vaccinate their children, while Jenny McCarthy is an antivaxxer.
You’re ignoring the fact that the proposal doesn’t call for the tumors to be harvested directly into a McDonald’s kitchen, but collected, and placed into meat-growing vats.
But cost would still be an issue, particularly in the USA, where an uninsured patient is on the hook for $10,000 - $20,000 for a lumpectomy.
To give something vaguely like a factual answer – the cause of most tumors isn’t well understood. But at least some are triggered by a virus. And there’s at least one tumor (of tasmanian devils, iirc) that is contagious all by itself, because it doesn’t trigger much of an immune response in the animal, and if it gets into a new devil, it grows there.
So it seems like it would be medically unwise to eat tumors.
Placentas aren’t that dangerous, but are chock-a-block full of hormones, and it’s probably not terrific to eat a lot of those, either. Although, I suppose if people can eat rocky mountain oysters, they can eat placentas.
