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Artificial Cannibalism
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This is the civilized sub-trope of I'm a Humanitarian: rather than eating flesh that used to be part of an actual person, people eat Artificial Meat that closely resembles human flesh. Some works present this as being an extreme or outrageous thing to do, while others explore the conflict between the Squick factor of cannibalism and the logical point that this is a completely harmless activity, so why not? Works with magical settings also include this as a solution for beings who need to eat human flesh. In hard science fiction the meat is usually cultured from human muscle biopsies. Works at the softer end also use other methods of production, including Matter Replication, magical materialisation and "human flavoured" vegetable protein. This is a speculative trope for now, but given the progress being made on cell culture for food production it may be only a matter of time. This trope also includes the following edge cases: Other sapient species which either practice artificial cannibalism or eat the artificially produced flesh of another sapient species (even though the latter isn't technically cannibalism). Human (or non-human sapient) flavoured products, such as salt-and-human crisps. |
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At the end of the Adventure Time episode "Her Parents", Lady Rainicorn's parents introduce Finn and Jake to the delicacy "soy people". Humans have seemingly been extinct for centuries in Ooo, so Rainicorns can't actually taste the real thing, but the soy version apparently has an identical taste. Finn hesitantly takes a bite... and ends up enjoying the taste. | |
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In Nightflyers, the Nightflyer comes across a rundown old ship whose crew have survived by cloning human meat as a food source. | |
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Freefall: Strip #3791 has an instant food vending machine serving mycoprotein in "Mythical Meat" flavours, with options including Phoenix and Yeti. A notice at the bottom adds "Long pig no longer being served". Diners also notice that Kraken smells a lot like sqid, Sam Starfall's species, and muse that they should discontinue the flavour before opening diplomatic relations. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-604, "The Cannibal's Banquet", is a magical rather than technological version of this trope. It is a dinner set which converts any food or drink placed on it into human flesh and blood, usually that of infants. Before the Foundation got hold of it, it was owned by the evil corporation known as Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd., who used it to provide Exotic Entrees at some of their more exclusive business functions. The Foundation's interest in it seems to be no more than scientific curiosity, but they are considering using it to feed SCP-352, aka Baba Yaga, as a "more efficient" alternative to her usual diet. | |
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In The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, artificial human tissue is used as a substitute in modern Aztec Human Sacrifice. Some people still use real humans. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: The side-quest "Beyond the Beef" involves a cannibalism plot. One option to foil it is to create a substitute dish that tastes just like human — and after the speech at the banquet, you then expose Mortimer about the plot. | |
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Buso Renkin: Once a person becomes a homunculus, they get an insatiable lust for human flesh. However, the Vegetarian Vampire Victoria eats her mother's cloned brain flesh. | |
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At the end of Project Hail Mary, Ryland Grace ends up subsisting on what he calls "me-burgers" — meat made from his own cloned muscle tissue. He acknowledges the Squick factor, but given that he's living on a planet unsuited to humans or their nutritional needs, it's not like he has many other options. | |
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Accelerando includes a description of a party where "long pork" was served. It isn't explicitly stated that this was artificial meat, but the setting would imply it. | |
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In Transhuman Space, one of the weird subcultures that have sprung up is "Clonabilism", in which people eat cultured protein cloned from themselves. The frontispeice of Toxic Memes shows a man cheerfully eating a duplicate of his own head, which looks equally cheerful. | |
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In one good ending of the Star Challenge book Dimension of Doom, a Cyborg in the alternate universe asks for food to feed the dinosaurs present on his planet (long history). Since they're carnivorous he asks for a sample of human genetic code to produce artificial meat for them, which gets slapping your character in the face. | |
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While a Contact ship visits Earth in The State of the Art, one of the crew arranges a feast including the power figures of 1977: | |
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Fire Punch often features human meat that is technically natural, but came from people who can quickly regenerate what is taken from them — willingly or not. Luna and Agni fed their whole village with severed limbs, while Behemdorg extracted a kind of starchy liquid from people strapped to medical beds. Doma burned Agni's village down when he found their Cannibal Larder. Doma actually did know where the meat came from, but killed the villagers because he assumed they'd resort to regular cannibalism — this despite working for Behemdorg. | |
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In the Shadowrun universe, people infected by a certain magical virus turn into ghouls, who must eat metahuman flesh in order to survive. One of the bequests in the will of the dragon Dunkelzahn was to give 2 million nuyen to anyone who developed artificial metahuman flesh that could satisfy a ghoul's hunger. | |
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Unsounded: The Silver Eel grows fruit-shaped things for Cutter to eat by replicating the meat of its victims. | |
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.: "Tastes-just-like-human" meat products (mostly derived from chicken or pork) become a vital commodity to ensure peaceful human/Unnatural relations in the wake of the Big Easy. | |
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Rule 34 mentions the Morningside Cannibals, a club of middle-class people who held dinner parties where they served meat cultured from each other. The police wanted to charge them but couldn't find a law they had broken. Then the press got hold of the story. | |
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The Shand from Strata are ritual cannibals. At one point, Silver goes insane from hunger and is fed meat cultured from her own cells because there is no other meat with a compatible biology to use as a pattern. | |
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In one page of Bloody Urban, Shaz finds a pack of hot dogs made from cloned celebrity meat and uses their You Are Who You Eat powers to transform into Samuel L. Jackson. | |
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Antiviral takes place in a world where celebrity worship is such that fans are willing to shell out serious cash to eat the cloned tissue of big stars from licensed, mainstream "meat markets". The company "Astral Bodies" is one such provider, selling items like sausages, bacon bits, and "1st Grade Stem Cell Meat" taken from movie star Hanna Geist. | |
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Transmetropolitan: The future Mega City setting has a popular fast-food chain, Long Pig, that specializes in cloned human meat. It's played for gross-out humour in-universe. | |
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