Look what I have in my possession!

[theyellowhobbit]

Soylent Green Tea!

Well, I'm transporting it to College Park, in any case. But how awesome is that?

Comments

[ranka.livejournal.com]

Heh, awesome!

I have a feeling people aren't kosher - even free range ones. Are they? I don't remember human flesh being explicitely mentioned in the Leviticus food laws ... ;-)

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

Ooh! sf0! That is an awesome website. Do you have a username on there, or is this just something you stumbled on? (my username is the same as my lj)

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

I don't have a username there. I got the link because someone in HRSFA, TL, had seen it, posted to the listserv "hey, can anyone get this for me?" then my friends LS and DS found it, bought it, and gave it to me to bring to TL at the house/nerd party, e-mailed him back and CCed me, and the link was there.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

There's actually a debate as to if you were on a desert island and there was a dead human corpse and a pig and you needed to eat one to survive, which would be more problematic.

Human flesh is not prohibited outright, but a. you are prohibited from killing people most of the time and b. you can only eat animals slaughtered in a kosher manner. There's also c. you're prohibited from desecrating a dead body.

Most prohibitions are nullified in a life or death scenario. Also, there are some peoples that the Israelites were commanded to kill, such as the Amalekites. So one could imagine a scenario where you were an Israelite in battle with an Amalekite, you killed him the same way you would slaughter a kosher animal, and there was no other food and you would die if you didn't eat the corpse. Then you could do it.

So not a matter of kosher so much a matter of all the surrounding laws.

[ranka.livejournal.com]

boroparkpyro mentioned that debate to me in an AIM chat. :-)

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

:)

And boroparkpyro is going to be a rabbi soon. Maybe he can supervise the production of kosher soylent green tea!

[ranka.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. Sounds good!

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, the person who made the tea was rather excited to find out that someone had actually purchased it.

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

the two of you can pick which of you gets to consider eating the other one on the desert island, then :-P
although the question is sort of moot if ranka wins, since he has no kosher obligations...

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

the point of the debate is whether there are basic laws of human morality that don't need to be stated in the Torah, such that cannibalism is just SO horrific and unthinkable that it doesn't need to be explicitly prohibited.

[ranka.livejournal.com]

Are you saying the gentiles are cannibals? Is that what you're implying? :-P

Well, Christianity does have ritual symbolic cannibalism (theophagy?) as one of its central rituals, so you might be on to something in regards to Christians ... ;-)

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

i'm saying that if the question is "dead sen_ichi_rei or dead pig", "OH NO PIG" is not really a dilemma for someone who has no religious objections to eating pigs. :-P

[ranka.livejournal.com]

Ah, true. :-) Pig over human is definitely a no-brainer for someone without the pork taboo :)

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

But Soylent Green Tea is so tasty!

[ranka.livejournal.com]

Mmmm .... Soylent Green ...

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to make a cup, but unfortunately it's not really mine.