LogFAQs > #887461675

Keith_Valentine posted...

There's a hunger epidemic. Why don't we just grind dead people into burger like tc said? They're dead anyways, and people are hungry. Why not?

Because there's enough food in the world right now to cure the hunger epidemic. The problem isn't quantity, it's distribution. If you minced dead bodies into burgers, the problem of distribution would still exist and you would solve nothing.

Meanwhile, while any food could cure hunger equally as well as cannibalism (or better), anything else will not work equally as well for an organ transplant. If you need a liver, you need a liver. A baguette won't do the trick.

All that said, it's still repugnant that doctors went behind parents' backs and harvested organs from their dead children. A one-time case I might understand if you're desperate to save a life, but this was/is systematic. They're doing it for profit, exploiting vulnerable people, and it's corruption, plain and simple.
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