The dream lives on

Nederlander visionaries have learned how to produce pork without depending (quite as much) on that age-old crutch of the pork producer: the pig. They extract cells from a piggie and put them in what The Telegraph temptingly describes as "a broth of other animal products," the cells then grow into a "soggy pork." None of the researchers have yet been willing to taste their creation, but signs are good that vegetarian-friendly meat will be a reality soonish.

The next step, as Snotley pointed out three years ago, is to do the same with human flesh. Everybody knows it but few will say it -- human flesh must be delicious as well as nutritious. It just has to be -- nice red meat with just the right kinds of proteins and nutrients. There are all sorts of good reasons why we don't eat much human flesh now, but as far as I can tell absolutely none of them apply if the meat is grown in a lab and no one dies for it.

We may be only a few short years away from the days of moral cannibalism. I lick my lips in anticipation.