Timeline for If eating in vitro animal meat is morally acceptable to vegetarians, does it follow that eating in vitro Human flesh is morally acceptable?

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Aug 16, 2012 at 18:12	history	edited	stoicfury	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 1462 characters in body
Aug 16, 2012 at 13:28	comment	added	Niel de Beaudrap		There are some moral/economic problems involved as well even if you're okay with eating people killed by accident: how could one be sure, at a deli, that one's long pork is "ethically sourced"? I think the long-term risk of prion diseases are not only a very good practical reason for not eating human flesh, but (along with the increased social stability associated with having a lower risk of being hunted down for food by neighbors) probably one of the historical drivers for the abandonment of human-flesh eating in those societies where the recovering of nutrients was not a dominant concern.
Aug 16, 2012 at 5:44	comment	added	Bogdanovist		The question comes down to what constitutes cannibalism? Is it about the nature of the flesh or about the identity of the previous owner of that flesh? As I note in the updated question, we don't eat recently people who died accidentally because (amongst other reasons) of the strong cultural importance of ceremonial burial. Note that in some PNG cultures, eating the dead was the ceremonial burial (until prion diseases caused this practice to be abandoned).
Aug 16, 2012 at 4:08	history	answered	stoicfury	CC BY-SA 3.0