Don’t Want to Eat Cows? Try “Ethical Cannibalism” Instead | Answers in Genesis
A group of researchers has developed the concept for a “grow-your-own-steak kit” where you grow “steak” . . . from your own cheek cells and expired blood from a blood bank. This concept was developed “to question the ethics of the cultured meat industry.” Here’s the so-called “ethical” problem of lab-grown steaks (which are projected to be big money in the future): these steaks still require animal by-products (specifically blood from fetal cows), and therefore these researchers see the production of such products as unethical.
Now, originally mankind and the animals were created vegetarian (Genesis 1:29). But after the fall, death entered creation, and after the global flood, God clearly told us (see Genesis 9:3 below) that man could have animals for food. But we were not given humans, or ourselves, as food: just a few verses later, God instituted the death penalty for those who take the life of another human, made in God’s image. So clearly humans aren’t included in the “everything” God gave us to eat. And even though there are instances of humans eating human flesh recorded in the Bible, they are always in the context of man’s rebellion and God’s judgment.
This concept of a “human steak kit” devalues human life to the level of just an animal. But we are not just animals—we are uniquely made in the image of God. We must champion the uniqueness and value of every human life and stand against those who would seek to devalue it.