because eating men’s meat is gay, and so on

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    Hello there, human meat butcher, fetch me a flank of a former league of legends player that died after a diet of nothing but energy drinks and chicken tendies. Nono, this one isn’t pale enough. I want only your finest. Bring me muscles that have never been used.

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    What’s the quote about virgins from that vampire show? Something like: If you’re going to eat a sandwich, wouldn’t your prefer if no one had fucked it first?

    This seems similar.

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    “Meat with a first and last name tastes best!” - from Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

    Not a book for most people, hell sometimes I wish I hadn’t read it. But if you want to get into a fiction book on the subject this one is pretty fucked up. It’ll probably live rent free in my head for the rest of my life…

    A few other quotes that have stuck with me:

    After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.

    I know that when I die somebody’s going to sell my flesh on the black market, one of my awful distant relatives. That’s why I smoke and drink, so I taste bitter and no one gets any pleasure out of my death.

    No one can call them humans because that would mean giving them an identity. They call them product, or meat, or food.

    They gave human meat the name “special meat.” Instead of just “meat,” now there’s “special tenderloin,” “special cutlets,” “special kidneys."

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      That book was a great read. I really enjoyed it, the themes of capitalist consumerism and greed were neatly wrapped up in the madness of cannibalism.

      The ending where >!the guy ends up killing the woman that became too human in his eyes!< was a great twist. Would definitely recommend that book to anyone who enjoys reading.

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    An obscenely crude platformer came out a couple years ago called Hell Pie, where you play as a demon chained to a cherub and you go to different “worlds” to get her ingredients to make a pie for Satan’s birthday.

    One of the levels takes place in and around a giant restaurant that serves all the people of the world (meaning all the NPCs and other characters you’ve seen throughout the game) and they have a “mystery meat” that’s so delicious people can’t get enough. One of the side areas in the exterior of the building, is a small caged-in area on a flat metal surface, with tents and fire barrels and a bunch of naked humans who look like they’ve been in captivity for their entire lives. Like skin-and-bone, bug-eyes, all huddled together and acting like scared animals.

    It was one of the few areas in the game that actually kinda fucked me up.

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    I already find it kind of weird when people talk about eating meat, especially ‘breasts’, but no one else seems to so maybe I’m weird.

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      Not “no one;” it is pretty bizarre to think about. It’s just that we’re omnivores so we eat things that either used to have eyeballs or that scream when they’re torn from the ground. Like plants react if you even have an intention of harming them, so it’s just sucky to be an omnivore with empathy in general

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    Now you’re giving me an idea to tweak dude bros by pointing out how they’re eagerly shoving male beef down their throats

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    I don’t love the second half of this post, it seems like bait to bring out the worst in people, but so far all of the comments seem to be keeping things civil and avoiding the bait.

    Thanks all.

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      Usually that type of bait post has a generalized accusation of hypocrisy, that’s the secret ingredient that turns comment sections into 360-era COD lobbies - this post’s title is missing that, so to me it doesn’t look like deliberate ragebait