If human meat was sold in corporate grocery stores the majority of people would be fine with it...

Secondly, for the purpose of this debate only, I would like to 'create' a fictional universe that I will refer to as ‘Universe X’. Now, imagine that in Universe X almost everything is exactly the same down to the locations of the hairs on your chinny chin-chin. Well, everything, besides the fact that human meat has recently been appearing in the freezer section of your alternate self's local grocery store. Let’s switch back to our universe for a few moments. Would Walmart, Safeway, or Grocery Outlet simply be able to place a human torso next to the chicken breasts? They would not due to the fact that we have laws prohibiting mishandling and mutilating a human corpse, and with those laws intact it makes it pretty hard to consume human flesh legally. "Mutilation of corpse is a wrong of willfully, recklessly, wantonly, unlawfully, or negligently dismembering or disfiguring by cutting, scratching, or mishandling the body of a dead person. It is an offense of dissecting or dismembering, without authority, the dead body of a person. " -uslegal . http://definitions.uslegal.com... Imagine how food is processed and handled on its journey to the freezer section of your favorite grocery store. With a human corpse, this would fall under mishandling the body of a dead person, meaning that it would be illegal to even place an unmutilated body in the trucks that carry the food products. There would be no way a very large corporation would be able to sell human meat in this Universe, especially in a first world country such as America. So exactly how did human meat get on the shelf of a grocery store in Universe X? What exactly would have to happen? First, the laws prohibiting mishandling and mutilating a human corpse would have to be repealed in that universe. Let's call the repeal of these laws 'Event A'. Moving on for now, what would have had to happen to have these laws repealed? People who are in very high positions of power would have had to agree upon the removal of such a law, meaning that not only do those people find the consumption of human meat acceptable, but there is the possibility that those same people practice cannibalism themselves. In our universe, repealing a law is a very difficult task, meaning that the society in Universe X would have had a very good reason to attempt such a chore. Now what happened after the law was repealed in Universe X? Or, should I ask, what should have happened? This is the mystery event that apparently never occurred in our fictional universe. This event, which we'll call 'Event B', was the key to stopping the next event from ever happening. The next event, which we'll call 'Event C', is the very first time human meat was ever sold in a corporate grocery store. But something is not right. Where did Event B go in Universe X? What would happen if Event A were to happen in this universe? We'll let's look back at the meat adulteration scandal, involving horse meat being found and sold in stores in Europe. "The controversy in the U. S. over horsemeat comes as a scandal rocks Europe. It began when tests in Ireland revealed some products contained horsemeat instead of beef. Since then, consumers have been shocked to learn horsemeat has been found in products sold across Europe. British supermarkets have pulled more than 10 million burgers from shelves. " -wnd . http://www.wnd.com... As you can see, people did not react very well to the fact that horse meat was found in the food products they were buying. Some even showed disgust and shock after learning this fact. So what would happen if human meat were to be sold in stores? This is, Event B, our mystery event which would most likely happen if Event A were to ever occur in our universe. Possible riots Extreme disgust Protests Letters being written to congressmen and other politicians News broadcasts all over the world Civilians demanding that the law be put back A law like this being repealed would never go undetected and the fact that no one complained about it before human meat hit the market is very strange, leading me to the logical conclusion that the society in Universe X actually finds cannibalism acceptable to the point where no one did anything to stop Event A and Event C from happening. There is also the possibility that all of the above would occur during the process of Event A, stopping that event and the following ones from every happening. In either universe, if Event A does not occur than neither will Event B nor Event C, and if Event B occurs than Event C cannot. I do not believe that Event B and Event C can co-exist. However, if Event B were to happen in this universe than Event C would not be possible, meaning that the majority of the population would find consumption of human meat a despicable act. However, if Event B did, in fact, not happen following Event A than it would mean society has deemed cannibalism acceptable. As a final note, corporations and companies in our universe do not sell products in which there is no demand for. Other than antique shops, it is virtually impossible for me to find a type writer in stores, such as Walmart, due to the fact that they do not sell. Products in stores that are not selling are eventually pulled from the shelves and replaced with another product. The fact that human meat is sold in grocery stores in Universe X means that there is a demand for it. Conclusion- Cannibalism is practiced so much in Universe X that not only is it socially acceptable, not only is there a demand for human flesh, and not only have laws been repealed regarding the practice of mutilating and mishandling human corpses, but companies are actually able to make profits from all of this.