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List of the top 10 most harmful foods people keep eating! There are still countless food products that, while they may taste delicious to a lot of you. They ...

It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.

Researchers in Bordeaux are analyzing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid — along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines — that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.

A CHEAPSKATE family have saved a fortune by dining on roadkill and fashioning presents out of carcasses. Fanatically frugal Vickie and John from Ida

A BREWER has given up food for 46 days in Lent — and will survive on beer instead.Del Hall, 45, claims he loses 3½ stone from his liquid diet

A hands-off recipe for this Italian classic.

Mini shells, ziti or ditalini pasta, either way you will never go wrong with this slow-cooker recipe (sub the dried pintos, for canned, less work) serve with tomato and mozz., fresh basil and balsamic vinegar and fresh bread, oh my, so good.

People in the South are currently in dire need. After winter storm Uri threatened an already-fragile power system, over

TOWIE’S Fran Parman ignited a furious debate – just by posing next to her fridge. The star appeared in a snap with a bowl of shredded wheat, not realising the bottle of ketchup

A HUNGRY diner was stunned when her takeaway delivery driver sent the message: “Sorry love, ate your food.” Illy Ilyas, 21, then received a text asking her to tip the cheeky Uber Eats courier. But …

Aleph Farms in Israel, who debuted the first lab-grown steak, updates their formula with a new 3D printing process.

Winning awards for their dramatic weight loss set these four slimmers off on very different paths - changing their lives for the better and the worse

EXCLUSIVE: A charity has shared pictures of 'airline-style' meals being dished out to asylum-seekers - including pregnant women and kids - confined to hotels and banned from earning money to buy their own food

SAM Palmer’s eyes were on stalks when she unpacked the shopping — and found a foot-long banana. She said mum Paula had not noticed what a whopper it was at the supermarket. But when they pulled it …

Roger's Wholesale opened its fifth branch in Stockport on Saturday, having already opened stores in Poole, Plymouth, Southampton and Bilston, with customers queuing up to get in

SUBWAY’S tuna sandwich contains “no scintilla of tuna at all,” two women have claimed in a $5million lawsuit against the fast food giant. The California pair claim the popular Subway tuna san…

EXCLUSIVE: Erika McCall and Niesha Forbes have brought together a collection of funny and embarrassing dating stories for their new book All Good A Week Ago - and this week they're sharing their favourites with The Mirror

Between science, research and zombie movies we have become inundated with images and themes meant to indoctrinate human beings collectively into accepting, first the idea, then the reality, of consuming human flesh.

Of course they do not want us calling it "cannibalism," even though that is what humans consuming human flesh/meats is.
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November 2020 was a busy month, between the presidential election, the legal battles stemming from massive voting irregularities, among other news dominating the nations attention, a few things slipped through the cracks, yet this type of news, should never go ignored.

When referencing cannibalism we generally think of humans eating other humans, which we have seen in some form or fashion for decades in movies, television and books.

Anyone remember Soylent Green?

In a term coined by Steve Quayle, "Techno-cannibalism" isn't just ripping flesh of your neighbor for a midnight munchie, but rather lab-grown human meat. Now a company is working to mass produce Do-It-Yourself (DIY) kits where people can use their own human cells to create miniature "human meat steaks."

Note: For the record, this is not satire, nor a parody and we triple checked to be sure this is not a hoax either.

New York Post, Techno Times, MSN News and many, many others have addressed this "DIY meal kit," which was named one of Beazley designs of the year in 2020, the story was just buried under an avalanche of other news.

Below is the description over at Design Museum:

Ouroboros Steak is a DIY meal kit for growing gourmet steaks from one’s own cells. It comes as a starter kit of tools, ingredients and instructions that enable users to culture their own cells into mini steaks, without causing harm to animals.

This "product" is not yet available to buy, but the goal is to mass produce these kits to be sold around the world.

Via the New York Post:

Growing an Ouroboros Steak would take about three months using cells taken from inside your cheek, the magazine reported. For the collection of sample steaks on display in the museum, the team used human cell cultures purchased from the American Tissue Culture Collection and grew them with donated blood that expired and would have otherwise been destroyed. They preserved the final products in resin.

“Expired human blood is a waste material in the medical system and is cheaper and more sustainable than FBS, but culturally less accepted,” Knight told Dezeen.

Of course the designers would prefer this not be referred to as "cannibalism," as reported by Techno Times:

According to one of the designers known as Grace Knight in the statement given to Dezeen Magazine, people think that the thought of eating oneself is considered as cannibalism, which is still technically not. Before thinking if this product should be tried or not, it is worth noting that it is still not available to buy.

OuroChef's website reads like a badly written horror movie, starting with their introduction which says "Your Cultured Self."

At Ourochef our goal is to supply everything you need to create cultivated food at home from your own cells. We provide the nutrients for growing healthy cells, scaffolds to make delicious textures and all the required kitchen consumables, tools and appliances you will need to care for your luxurious creations. Growing yourself ensures that you and your loved ones always know the origin of your food, how it has been raised and that its cells were acquired ethically and consensually.

Reporting on this feels like writing a script for a B (maybe C or D) rated horror flick.
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A government television broadcast in Cuba this week urged citizens to eat guinea pig and other rodents, suggesting rodent meat is more nutritious and “sustainable” than pork or beef, Cuban outlets reported on Wednesday.

The Communist Party has presided over major food shortages in Cuba for decades, beginning almost immediately following the Cuban Revolution in 1959. In recent years, the Castro regime has blamed President Donald Trump for extensive food shortages and failed distribution of government-mandated rations. While the Trump administration has imposed significant sanctions on the regime in response to the increased frequency of human rights violations against pro-democracy dissidents in the Obama era, these sanctions have targeted elite individuals and military-linked corporations, not sources of food for the general population.
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The Cuban Communist Party has systematically silenced dissidents who have exposed how Havana is directly responsible for food shortages in the country, most prominently ecologist Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, arrested after using a plot of land in Pinar del Río to prove that a competent government could significantly increase crop production. Ruiz Urquiola now says communist officials infected him with HIV on purpose while in prison.

In an alleged attempt to promote nutritious eating on Tuesday, a news broadcast on Tele Mayabeque, a Communist Party-approved network, revealed that the Castro regime had organized a meeting with chefs to design meals featuring guinea pig meat. The broadcast also encouraged Cubans to “socialize the experience of raising the guinea pig” by the entire family.
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As if 2020 wasn't already weird and awkward enough, McDonald's has decided to really take the cake. Though the iconic fast-food chain is known for delivering drool-worthy items (like the holiday pie and chocolate brownie McFlurry) in markets around the world, their new creation is guaranteed to get people talking—even if they're not saying the nicest things.
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Set to roll out at McDonald's China, America's favorite burger joint is now delivering one of the most unique burgers out there: a Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbles. The announcement was made on Chinese social media platform Weibo last week and made its way to Twitter when video game analyst Daniel Ahmed tweeted about it. "Look, I saw this so you have to see it too. Sorry, that's how it works," he said in the tweet.

Mixing up a combination of sweets and canned meat, the new mash-up "burger"—if it really qualifies as such—is a limited-time menu item that will become available on December 21. Unfortunately (or maybe this is a good thing?), there are only plans to make 400,000 of the unique burgers. So, if you're not able to grab one, you can always try your hand at replicating one at home.
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