On 12/01/2009 03:56 PM, Alexander Hollins wrote:
There are cultures where, at a certain age, the elderly are ritually
killed, and served up to their tribe. NOT eating your dear aunt was
considered dreadfully insulting to her spirit. Very tight family
dynamics.
Right -- google "kuru" for one outcome of these 'tight dynamics'.
There are good reasons for not doing this kind of thing.
Hopefully meat from a vat would be safer, but it's still going to be the
usual meaty cholesterol bomb (assuming it has enough fat marbled in it
to provide good flavor and good mouth feel). And, of course,
well-marbled meat is wicked "calorie dense" (which is one reason it
tastes so good), which makes it very easy to pack on the pounds by
eating it.
Humans don't do so well on a high-meat diet. Heart disease is probably
the most widespread entirely avoidable disease in human history. Life
expectancy in the U.S. is actually starting to *drop* for what I believe
is the first time in history, apparently as a result of the heart
disease and obesity epidemic.
So, pardon me if I don't cheer too loudly for something which may reduce
the price of too-rich food even farther than its current dirt-cheap level.
