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Prince is old	2 votes - 28 %
Declare Victory and Leave	2 votes - 28 %
I'm my parents! Aieeee!	1 vote - 14 %
Libertarian Long Pork	2 votes - 28 %
Optional Black Turtlenecks	1 vote - 14 %
Cats	2 votes - 28 %
Goats (not mr goat)	2 votes - 28 %
Conservative Deep Thought (42!)	1 vote - 14 %
Lefty Soda	2 votes - 28 %
Klingon Software	2 votes - 28 %
Whatever happened to IndyMedia, anyway?	1 vote - 14 %

7 Total Votes

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Human meat in markets. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 06:34:24 AM EST

The other day, on NPR, they were talking to somebody about the possibility of cultured, or "feetless," meat. In essence, they raise slabs of flesh the way they currently culture skin grafts and the like. The resulting meat is "beef" or whatever, but it was never an animal. It starts and ends its noun-ness as meat. This brings up weird questions like: can a Jew or Muslim now eat pork because they can have pork that was never an unclean animal?

More importantly, would it be morally wrong to eat cultured people meat? I mean, it was never a person and nobody died to make it. So where's the harm?

Honestly, I think it is only a matter of time before more forward thinking restaurateurs hop on this. I can already see the pitch: "Long Pig's Place: Are you a people person?"

Carniculture by wiredog

(2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 06:39:47 AM EST

H. Beam Piper (a sci fi writer) used that in his plots back in the 50's. But never carniculture long pork.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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Arthur C. Clarke as well... by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 06:48:33 AM EST

short story about the latest fancy trend in 'manufactured' food.. The story being cast as something like a Senate hearing: "I'm sure the manufacturers of <soylent green product> will tell you that their base elements are the same limestone, granite and other inert, inorganic materials. But the resulting product is chemically identical to human flesh."

(Where instead of grown, it's 'produced' a'la star trek's food dispensing thingamajig that uses base elements to create food)

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I think this burning issue demands a poll. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (2.00 / 0) #4 Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 07:21:15 AM EST

This needs must be taken to the people.

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I'll vote . . . by slozo (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 06:36:12 AM EST

. . . two legs good, no legs bad!

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Everywhere there's lots of piggies by wiredog

(2.00 / 0) #6 Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 02:52:29 AM EST

Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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Irony complete: Ringo's now worth . . . by slozo (2.00 / 0) #7 Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:04:05 AM EST

. . . millions and millions.

That's one of my favourite little songs by him, btw, thanks for the reminder.

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The White Album by wiredog

(2.00 / 0) #8 Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:43:55 AM EST

is my favorite Beatles album. Followed closely by Abbey Road.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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: Both albums make my top ten . . . by slozo (2.00 / 0) #9 Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 08:38:58 AM EST

. . . of all-time. All owing, of course, to the greatness of Richard Starkey's fabulous drum skillz . . . ;)

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