CANNIBALISM is, you'd think, generally frowned upon for most parts of civilised society.
But three scientists, who some might call mad, have pitched a plan to grow "spare" human bodies that can not only be used for scientific experiments and withstand endless amounts of torture and pain, but could then also be on-sold as meat.
According to The Sun, the three scientists pitched their Frankenstein plan in the MIT Technology Review, claiming it can revolutionise medicine.
One key objective for the soulless humans would be to test new medicines and to grow human organs for transplant.
The bodies would come about by using pluripotent stem cells, which is one of the first cell types to form during early stages of human development.
Researchers are aiming to grow the humans in artificial uteruses and use genetic techniques to ensure the bodies lack any sentience or any central nervous system.
To be somewhat fair, similar stem cells are already being used to grow organic matter and have recently worked to grow a structure that resembles a human embryo.
But probably the most concerning part is the plan to use the grown bodies to "address many ethical problems in modern medicine" and learn about ways to minimise real human suffering and pain.
One of the scientists said one of those ways was by using the bodies as "ethical meat".
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