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That people should eat other people only as an absolute last resort seems the conventional wisdom. But would cannibalism be acceptable , so long as we don't actually kill one another for that purpose ?
Would we dishonor our deceased fellow human beings if we were to eat them ? Or is it conceivable our loved ones would actually honor us by using our bodies for food and for making articles of clothing, instead of just burying us, pumped full of embalming fluid in what are typically non-biodegradable coffins and caskets ?
Some people might say our current method of putting our dead in concrete vaults in the ground or in mausoleums is bad for the environment and that we could be putting our resources to better use. Think of all of the protein we've been allowing to go to waste!
Perhaps in the future a system for 'responsible cannibalism' would involve people consuming the flesh of deceased strangers, that is, somebody else's deceased loved ones. And, in turn, people we don't know would eat us and our deceased loved ones.
Maybe there would need to be an emotional distance between what we think of as food and what we know was once somebody's parent, uncle, math teacher or sweetheart.
Would wide social acceptance of cannibalism require a term for this type of meat ? Or would it be acceptable for our lunch and dinner menus to be full of descriptions such as "sauteed human in a rich white wine sauce " or "grilled human on a bed of field greens " ?
Or maybe our culinary descriptions would be less explicit. Sure we call the flesh of chicken just that. But the flesh of a pig is 'pork' and 'bacon.' And we refer to the flesh of a cow as 'beef', 'meatballs', 'hamburger', and so on.
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