Given the looming energy crisis, the increasing popularity bio feul, and human blood lust, its sort of hard to believe that it's taken this long for someone to make gas out of dead animals. This German inventor has been making batches of bio diesel out of, among other things, road kill cats (oh yes the irony is not lost on me).

Although I can't imagine it would ever be very efficient to husband animals for fuel (uh, wait, did I just say that?), if we, as humans, were ever able to move beyond the mental sophistication of pond scum, I think we could probably power a lot more than cars with all of the dead humans, especially considering the impending population explosion. OR, with no need to move beyond pond scum AND taking advantage of our blood lust, maybe we can fuel our roving armies by just rolling over the slaughtered. Man, wouldn't THAT be efficient. I can just imagine future humvees outfitted with inverse cattle catchers that just suck up the bodies as they plow through the battle fields. Now that's what I call progress.

This article (warning: pdf) from Tissue Engineering suggests that vat-grown meat may become actually feasible for human consumption.

There's an organization set up now to promote the concept, too! Check out their FAQ.

i've always said that i'd be fine with eating meat, so long as

1. i could grow it in a vat, and
2. it was seeded with cells taken from myself (as opposed to another animal who might rather do other things with their biomass)

Maybe one day i can eat meat again...

So this is it. What Daniel has been waiting for...

Human flesh-like tofu!

Maybe we can get ahold of some of this before Thanksgiving so that Daniel can make his tofinfant.

I also can't believe we got a legitmate use of the "cannibalism" topic so soon. (By the way, I found this one my first visit to The Huffington Post, which is a new blog from Arianna Huffington that Jonah has been working on.)