I suppose, if the rest of the world is set to follow The Netherlands, Ireland and Canada in legislating cows and fertilizer out of existence, there is still going to be a demand for high-quality complete proteins.
From the NYT's Style section, July 23:
A spate of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows and films suggests we’ve never looked so delicious — to one another.
An image came to Chelsea G. Summers: a boyfriend, accidentally on purpose hit by a car, some quick work with a corkscrew and his liver served Tuscan style, on toast.
That figment of her twisted imagination is what prompted Ms. Summers to write her novel, “A Certain Hunger,” about a restaurant critic with a taste for (male) human flesh.
Turns out, cannibalism has a time and a place. In the pages of some recent stomach-churning books, and on television and film screens, Ms. Summers and others suggest that that time is now....
....MUCH MORE
Questions America Wants Answered: Is Eating Lab Grown Human Flesh Cannibalism?
Bite Me: An evolutionary case for cannibalism
News You Can Use: "In a Heated Negotiation? Try Eating Like Your Opponent"
I initially misread the headline as "Try eating your opponent" an error I ascribe to the current political climate and the memory of Alferd Packer, Colorado's most famous cannibal, about whom the sentencing judge said:
"Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of 'em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t' be hanged by th' neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin' ag'in reducin' th' Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it."
The University of Colorado-Boulder student center is home to the Alferd Packer Restaurant & Grill.
One final note on Alferd:
In 1993 Trey Parker and Matt Stone, while studying at UC-Boulder, wrote and produced "Cannibal, The Musical".
They subsequently created South Park, a series about a little town in Colorado.
