# Would you try ethical vat-grown human meat? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580 "2014-10-17T13:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/41 "2014-10-17T23:53:07Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > So does anyone have any information on how humans DO taste? > > Like has a cannibal made that official statement? Yes, yes they have. [This German cannibal](http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/first-tv-interview-with-german-cannibal-human-flesh-tastes-like-pork-a-511775.html) says it’s like a stronger tasting pork, hence the nickname ‘long pig’. Whose cells were they from? Is it me? I bet I’d taste quite gamey, so I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/42 "2014-10-17T23:55:04Z")
\*\*\*“It’s a COOKBOOK!” \*\*\* :eek: ---
**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:** [October 18, 2014, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/43 "2014-10-18T13:00:25Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > IMHO - If it’s vat grown, it ain’t human - even if the “starter” cells came from a human. Ah, to be the technically niggling weasel in the room, I’d say that’s a bit of a wide brush—just because something isn’t a _person_ doesn’t mean it’s not _human_, or at least not “human-_derived_.” The biological origin certainly _would_ matter if, say, you were conducting experiments on the vat-tissue, or were growing it for transplant.\* \*Possible source of cruelty-free human—rejected transplant clone parts! (“SALE! Heart, en bloc. Mistakenly built on _situs inversus_ growth scaffolding. Must go!” “FIRE SALE! 9 Human Livers, defect free—client-patient died of alcohol poisoning celebrating (third) successful liver implantation.”) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/44 "2014-10-20T14:18:39Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Ah, to be the technically niggling weasel in the room, I’d say that’s a bit of a wide brush—just because something isn’t a _person_ doesn’t mean it’s not _human_, or at least not “human-_derived_.” I could go with “human derived”, but so are some hair extensions - no ethical delima there. Still doesn’t make is human, or a person - just a hunk of meat. Now, when science can vat grow a complete, sentient Homo Sapiens, that’s a whole 'nuther debate! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/45 "2014-10-20T15:18:50Z")
There’s all sorts of synthetically grown meats I’d like to try, but I have _no_ desire to ever know what human flesh tastes like, no matter the technicalities. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/46 "2014-10-20T16:46:19Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I could go with “human derived”, but so are some hair extensions - no ethical delima there. Still doesn’t make is human, or a person - just a hunk of meat. Now, when science can vat grow a complete, sentient Homo Sapiens, that’s a whole 'nuther debate! Makes no nevermind to me. When I found out that commercial manufacturers were using lecithin derived from human hair to “enhance texture” in baked goods, I was utterly horrified. When a coworker delightedly gave me a sample of her miracle hand cream which turned out to have “human placental extract” in it, it was all I could do to stop scrubbing my hands. I am completely grossed out by the mere suggestion of using any human-derived product, much less consuming it! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/47 "2014-10-20T16:51:45Z")
Watch it, pal. You’re _talking to_ human-derived products. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/48 "2014-10-20T16:59:57Z")
What - Meatloaf again? (But I’m much better now) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/49 "2014-10-20T17:01:09Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I am one of the most adventurous eaters I know. I have tried everything from ants and crickets to mammoth meat to freeze dried ice cream. I’m on a quest to figure out a way to try durian without stinking up my house. > > But I wouldn’t even try it, and I probably wouldn’t date somebody who did. That is just instinctively, viscerally, icky; I find the idea revolting. NEXT POLL: would you date someone who ate the people who died in the crash when their plane went down in the Andes? RE: OP. No. But I’m a vegetarian because I don’t like meat, you know, the texture and the way it tastes. I would have no qualms about eating the people who died in the crash if there were no other food. In fact, if there were a dog in the cargo hold who didn’t make it, I’d still rather eat the dead people. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/50 "2014-10-20T18:17:18Z")
I don’t think the idea is revolting, but I still put it down as a “Not a chance” because it just seems like a path better not travelled. Getting people used to the idea of eating human flesh seems like it’s just going to encourage a few bad results, and there’s no particular reason for it. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580/51 "2014-10-21T00:08:58Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I could go with “human derived”, but so are some hair extensions - no ethical delima there. Still doesn’t make is human, or a person - just a hunk of meat. Ah, are we using “human” as in the artistic, philosophical sense, or “human” as in “biologically _Homo Sapiens Sapiens_”? (Hey, niggling weasels gotta eat…delicious ape flesh…too. 😃 ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-try-ethical-vat-grown-human-meat/701580.md?page=2)