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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

How do you guarantee that? If it's just a matter of asking consent, that's probably illegal. If the person died from other causes (illness, accidents, old age etc.), I'd question whether it's safe (illness) or palatable (old age) to eat that meat.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Just sign up to be a meat donor like you sign up to be an organ donor. if you were healthy enough to have your organs harvested at death, you were healthy enough to eat (probably idk).

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Not that I want to link to reddit, but there was a thread from a guy who had to have his foot amputated due to injury. He took it home, prepared it and then ate it. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I have a hard time believing that the foot was entirely unaffected by the injury ... it's whatever if it's your own limb, but I wouldn't eat someone else's limb that was amputated due to injury.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

He did state that the limb was healthy, and he could have kept it, but it wasn't structurally sound enough to take his weight. Hence there wouldn't have been gangrene or anything like that.

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Gangrene's kinda nasty, I agree. Come to think of it, it would be like eating severely spoiled meat. There's a reason doctors cut that stuff out of you.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

It was an elective amputation because he couldn't walk on it, I didn't see any mention of gangrene or anything else infectious.

It was not a case where it was removed for threatening his life like gangrene would have been.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Cloned meat would satisfy the requirement

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It would probably be enough fitting: If you work in a mortuary, an you have cases of young people that consented to donate their dead body to whatever. I mean they are dead anyway. And they get cremated. So know harm in taking the calf.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah well, I'm only eating people that died by suicide, then.