A Swedish researcher said people should grow comfortable with cannibalism as a way to combat climate change in the future.
Magnus Soderlund, a behavioral scientist and marketing strategist at the Stockholm School of Economics, presented at a food of the future conference known as the Gastro Summit in Sweden last week, according to the Epoch Times. Soderlund’s presentation asked the audience to consider consuming human flesh in the future to help combat climate change.
He calls the notion that people should not eat other humans a “conservative” taboo and says the stigma should be lifted in humanity’s best interest. In the future, after the most drastic effects of climate change begin to set in, people will have to consume human flesh in order to survive, according to Soderlund.
At an interview after his talk, Soderland said nearly 10% of his audience said they were open to trying human flesh. When asked if he would consider eating the flesh of another person, he said, “I feel somewhat hesitant but to not appear overly conservative … I’d have to say … I’d be open to at least tasting it.”
