The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue May 16, 2017 12:26 am

Forty Two wrote:Processing humans for consumption and product development would result in significant environmental benefits, and we cannot afford to ignore any option which will benefit the planet, given the dire condition of our world and the proven danger to humanity.

If we take just those who did not die from intentional homicide, we would save significant acreage that would otherwise go to cemeteries, and we would save the emissions from crematoria. We would have huge amounts of edible matter, as well as lots of bio material that can be used in industry (which we currently get from non-human animals only).

There would be favorable impacts on world hunger, as well as the environment. As a species and as good stewards of the planet, is it immoral not to utilize the huge amounts of material that are now simply discarded?
You'd do more good and cause less harm if you just reduced your meat consumption by a third.
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by JimC » Tue May 16, 2017 12:35 am

They'll have to prise my pork sausage from my cold, dead hands! :lay:
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by laklak » Tue May 16, 2017 1:58 am

Brian Peacock wrote:... reduced your meat consumption by a third.
Taken individually I understand each of those words, but together they make no sense.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by pErvinalia » Tue May 16, 2017 2:03 am

laklak wrote:
Brian Peacock wrote:... reduced your meat consumption by a third.
Taken individually I understand each of those words, but together they make no sense.
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by rainbow » Tue May 16, 2017 8:40 am

pErvin wrote:But if we ate the rich the rest of us would get more wealth and we could afford to import Ethiopians to eat.
A bit "stringy", I find.
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue May 16, 2017 8:54 am

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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Svartalf » Tue May 16, 2017 10:39 am

JimC wrote:They'll have to prise my pork sausage from my cold, dead hands! :lay:
depends, is there pork barrel in it for me? else I'll just buy my own sausage, or pork roast, or ham...
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue May 16, 2017 11:01 am

We could breed vegans for the job.
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Forty Two » Tue May 16, 2017 11:41 am

Brian Peacock wrote: You'd do more good and cause less harm if you just reduced your meat consumption by a third.
What harm would be caused?
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by pErvinalia » Tue May 16, 2017 12:17 pm

Meat is environmentally taxing, far more so than plants. I don't care, though, as bacon and red meat just taste too damn good. :drool:
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Forty Two » Tue May 16, 2017 12:22 pm

What would be the harm of using the dead humans, though? The proposal was to take the bodies that die and take up space, etc., and otherwise go to waste, and process them for consumption and use.

What harm?
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue May 16, 2017 12:55 pm

show your work

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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Forty Two » Tue May 16, 2017 1:07 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:show your work
If processing of human remains were required, then we would save:
all green space used annually for cemeteries - that could be forested;
all emissions from crematoria;
some reduced non-human animal meat consumption due to the availability of 55 million fleshy bodies to consume
no corresponding harm to the environment, because we can use the same facilities and processes that are currently used for other animal products.

So, I don't have exact figures, but what's the downside here? Since the world is in environmental crisis, would it not behoove us to use the human material that currently goes to waste?
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by pErvinalia » Tue May 16, 2017 1:11 pm

Forty Two wrote:What would be the harm of using the dead humans, though? The proposal was to take the bodies that die and take up space, etc., and otherwise go to waste, and process them for consumption and use.

What harm?
Sorry, I thought he was talking about meat in general. I still agree with eating the rich, or at the very least grinding them up and using them as fertiliser.
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Re: The Environmental Benefits of Cannibalism

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue May 16, 2017 1:20 pm

Forty Two wrote:
Sean Hayden wrote:show your work
If processing of human remains were required, then we would save:
all green space used annually for cemeteries - that could be forested;
all emissions from crematoria;
some reduced non-human animal meat consumption due to the availability of 55 million fleshy bodies to consume
no corresponding harm to the environment, because we can use the same facilities and processes that are currently used for other animal products.

So, I don't have exact figures, but what's the downside here? Since the world is in environmental crisis, would it not behoove us to use the human material that currently goes to waste?
I suspect it's not worth it. Well, maybe if we can process the "nearly" dead, and "should" be deads.

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