Scientist suggests 'eating human meat' to tackle climate change
A Swedish scientist has suggested eating human flesh to tackle climate change at a Stockholm summit, according to reports.
In the 1973 dystopian film Soylent Green, the world is so overpopulated that dead bodies are sold as food.
But Swedish researcher Magnus Söderlund believes this could be a genuine solution to climate change and asserts we must "awaken the idea" of eating human flesh in the future.
At a summit for food of the future called Gastro Summit, Professor Söderlund held a talk called “Can you Imagine Eating Human Flesh?” where he argued "conservative" taboos against cannibalism should be broken down - the Epoch Times reports.
He suggests people's aversion to it could be overcome little by little, beginning with people just tasting it.
"Does Generation Z have the answers to our food challenges? Can consumers be tricked into making the right decisions?"
When interviewed after his talk, the professor was asked if he would try human flesh.
He replied: "I feel somewhat hesitant but to not appear overly conservative…I’d have to say….I’d be open to at least tasting it.”
Other food suggestions included eating pets and insects, but cannibalism was the main focus of the seminar.
But cannibalism has a lot of complications for humans which can result in deadly diseases.
For example, a tribe called the Fore lived in Papua New Guinea and practised eating their dead rather than allowing them to be consumed by worms.
This led to an epidemic of a disease called Kuru, or laughing death, which was caused by ingesting human meat.
It was a prion disease that caused a "twisted protein" that tricks other proteins in the brain to twist like it and damage the cerebellum.
Other examples of prion diseases include Mad Cow Disease that was caused by feeding cows the remains of other cattle.
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