‘Human Meat Project’ Is Not Promoting Cannibalism, It’s Conceptual Art

AP News ^

[nickcarraway]

CLAIM: An organization is seeking online donations of human bodies as a way to end world hunger.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The website for the Human Meat Project states in its terms and conditions that it is a conceptual art piece meant to “give an understanding of the importance of accepting any services’ policy and agreements.” Organizers of the project didn’t respond to messages seeking comment.

THE FACTS: In a widely viewed video on social media, a woman describes with increasing horror a website that seems to promote cannibalism as a way to address some of the world’s most intractable ills.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[sasquatch]

Jonathon Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’

[dfwgator]

[xp38]

Isn't it awfully colonialist to view cannibalism is a lesser way to live? /sarc

[Salman]

Conceptual art == Mind poison.

[ClearCase_guy]

When I first heard about this, I soylent greened my pants.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Soylent Green is coming true.

[nickcarraway]

Didn’t Benjamin Franklin also do something like that?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I was thinking more of the undertaker sketch.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

So their “Meat the Artist” thing was a LIE!

[Openurmind]

Today’s art, tomorrow’s reality.

[dfwgator]

Well I was feeling a bit peckish.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

If you feel a bit guilty afterwards...

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- From AP: "The Human Meat Project purports to seek donations of human bodies that would then be turned into meat for human consumption. But the site's ;Terms and Conditions of Use' spells out that it's 'purely a conceptual art project and will not be acted out in real life'.”

So in other words, Ass-ociated Press fact-checked pure BS. And got it wrong, as Ass-ociated Press so often does.

But from the site itself: "Welcome to the Human Meat Project, we are the human meat donation program. By donating bodies for human consumption, we are taking action to solve overpopulation, which leads to climate change and the greenhouse effect caused by the mass farming of livestock animals in order to feed the world."

Source: https://humanmeatproject.com/about-us/

So AP's fact check is itself BS. A cursory further look into the registrar and name server info indicates that the operator of this is outside the US, likely operated in the Netherlands and hosted in Cyprus. So the whole thing seems quite a scam on a number of levels.

[Seruzawa]

I am a bit peckish.

[No name given]

So they say they are not promoting cannibalism, huh?! Yeah, right and I’m sure they’ve got some real estate on Mars they’d like to sell us.

[Republican Wildcat]

Yes.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

You got beat by almost an hour. As a consolation prize, let me recommend “Cannibalism in the Cars” by Mark Twain.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Or “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell” by W. S. Gilbert. I memorized that for 8th grade English class, and it’s still in my head.