A Modest Proposal

The thought of selling humans as food had never really crossed my mind until this article. I think it rather strange about the authors ideas for such a system. When he talked about how horrible it was that all these women were wandering around the streets in Ireland with kids trailing behind them and that it would be more humane if we just ate the kids as food instead. I believe he would prefer the kids were sold as meat rather than murdered in an abortion. I hope the affairs of the world never gets into such a desperate position that selling babies as a food source becomes morally acceptable. He makes some very good points claiming his plan will help relieve the economic depression as well as helping control population growth. In a world whose population has been growing exponentially in the last few decades, overpopulation is a serious problem. Converting people into a food source may have some positive aspects to it, but I don't think there's anyway way we can do it without more drastic negative effects. When dealing with cannibalism, I feel I can accept it only on a cross-cultural level and would be pretty shocked to see someone from my own culture commit to it. Even quantifying humans into rations for families makes me think the author thought way to much about to subject. Well maybe you can think about cannibalism more by checking out this source:

Yue, Gang. Hunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating : alimentary discourse in Chinese and Chinese-American Literatures. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, 1993.