Controversial scientist Richard Dawkins recently made a post supportive of cannibalism on Twitter. In the post he said, "What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism? An interesting test case for consequentialist morality versus “yuck reaction” absolutism. "
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/969939225180364805
His post was in response to an article about the possibility of lab grown meat being on sale within the next year. Dawkins seemed to insinuate that objecting to cannibalism is somehow intolerant or wrong, when there are many obvious and scientific reasons why cannibalism is a bad idea.
Researchers discovered through studying cannibal tribes that the practice of eating human flesh often caused a fatal brain disease called kuru. This is just the worst thing that can happen to you from consuming your own species, it is well established fact that this can cause a long list of mental and physical illnesses.
According to Wikipedia:
Kuru is a very rare, incurable neurodegenerative disorder which was prevalent among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 60s. Kuru is caused by the transmission of abnormally folded prion proteins, which leads to symptoms such as tremors, loss of coordination, and neurodegeneration. The term kuru derives from the Fore word kuria or guria ("to shake"), due to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease and kúru itself means "trembling". It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism. Deceased family members were traditionally cooked and eaten, which was thought to help free the spirit of the dead. Females and children usually consumed the brain, the organ in which infectious prions were most concentrated, thus allowing for transmission of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children.
You may think that cannibalism is something that does not permeate into American culture, but as steemian 
It is strange that Dawkins is attempting to normalize such an obviously unhealthy and dangerous practice, but perhaps he was just being edgy and trying to get attention as so many of these pundits often do. Dawkins is best known as a champion of atheist materialists, and is often making absolute statements about how reality is confined to the world of the five senses, while dismissing anyone with a different idea as an "absolutist."
In 2011, Dawkins was challenged by Graham Hancock to try psychedelics to see if it would change his mind about more supernatural or explainable phenomenon, and Dawkins has yet to accept the Challenge.
This is not relevant to the story, this is just my favorite moment involving Dawkins, because it is the same challange that I put forward to most staunch materialists, and Graham Hancock is awesome.
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