I think he's focused on the wrong question. The ethical question isn't eating human burgers, but manufacturing them to begin with.
It's like asking, "is it ethical to eat people when all you have to eat is soylent green," when the real question should be "why the hell are we living in a society where soylent green is people, and how do we get out of it?"
(If you want to be a foodie and eat your human burgers just for the dilettantism then yes you can do it but no it's not ethical, just like eating a whale or something. There's no legitimate ethical purpose for these to exist, except, maybe, to sell them at $15k a pop and satiate the needs of the world's 50 hungry cannibals or something?
In which case you need a medical prescription and it goes on your government records. Either way, I solved your ethical dilemma Dawkins, give me a nobel prize for ethics.)
I think he's focused on the wrong question. The ethical question isn't eating human burgers, but manufacturing them to begin with.
It's like asking, "is it ethical to eat people when all you have to eat is soylent green," when the real question should be "why the hell are we living in a society where soylent green is people, and how do we get out of it?"
(If you want to be a foodie and eat your human burgers just for the dilettantism then yes you can do it but no it's not ethical, just like eating a whale or something. There's no legitimate ethical purpose for these to exist, except, maybe, to sell them at $15k a pop and satiate the needs of the world's 50 hungry cannibals or something? In which case you need a medical prescription and it goes on your government records. Either way, I solved your ethical dilemma Dawkins, give me a nobel prize for ethics.)