Eat me!

Lab-grown steaks nearing the menu

This is just a follow-up on a previous post about lab grown fish meat. The project, aimed to produce meat for long space voyages, also has potential for payoff here on earth. But this last paragraph really gets me thinking:

"One researcher recalls a student, a vegan, who asked if she could just biopsy herself, grow up a steak and eat it. If you want to eat truly victimless meat, perhaps it is time to put yourself on the menu."

I wonder how that would be interpreted by anti-cannibalism laws? Furthermore, I wonder if it might not me more efficient (and possibly safer) to eat human meat... after all, wouldn't human meat, unlike that of other species such as chicken or cow, come pre-designed with just about all the stuff the human body needs in the right proportions? And how would your average "moral" vegetarians (as opposed to religious ones with a god to hide behind) justify not eating lab-meat when no animal is harmed in the making of that meat?

So eat me! I bet I taste good!