Yes, i.realize that. But he still he wonders if we'll ever get over the '"yuck" reaction.' As if to say the aversion to cannibalism is an irrational peeve.

@Auty89 That's still an assumption.

It didn't get more attention because it's a dishonest portrayal of what Dawkins actually tweeted as admitted by the OP above.

Thanks for putting out the facts.

But that still depicts Richard Dawkins saying that he's been looking forward to this, and that he wishes we would get over our taboo

@Auty89 I think it's the narrative set by dwdavison that has the mind linking the two sections of the tweet.

The first section, what Dawkins has been looking forward to, is clean meat.

"The Good Food Institute, whose mission is to accelerate the plant-based and clean meat industries, defines Clean Meat as, “identical at the cellular level to conventional meat. This is real meat grown directly from animal cells, produced in a clean facility, similar to a brewery. The process does not involve raising and slaughtering farm animals. The final product has an identical taste and texture to conventional meat.”"

[forbes.com]

One of the main ideas behind clean meat and why many people, including Dawkins apparently, are looking forward to it is that it is cruelty free. There is no slaughter of a living breathing being.

Then, after the link there is the second section of the tweet simply asking questions about societal taboos regarding meat with the same molecular structure of human flesh grown in a lab. At no point does he take a side or provide any wish to get over this taboo. He just seems genuinely curious about the future.

@AlPastor, the fact that he wonders if we could ever get over our taboo for "cannibalism" (as artificial as it may be) and phrases it as getting over our '"yuck" reaction' kind of seems like a round-about way of saying "You humans and your hang-ups about eating each other." You seem to be employing some level of mental gymnastics in making Dawkins look neutral in this.

@Auty89 "You seem to be employing some level of mental gymnastics..."

Funny, I was thinking the same of you. At any rate, have you moved at all from the mental gymnastics that led you to claim that the tweet does the following-

"Then he goes on to saying how he longs to eat of the "forbidden flesh." Speculating about the health benefits of an uncomfortable subject is one thing, but romanticizing it like a sick fuck is another."

@AlPastor, I concede I got the original wording wrong. Nevertheless, speculating whether people will ever give up their '"yuck" reaction' doesn't sound like a neutral way of observing the way we view it.