Secret Meat : June 2011

Human Milk from a herd of human-cow hybrids; which means their meat is partly human meat...
But it's been in the works for awhile, and on it's it's way to government approval for sale.

“We believe that now we’re at the right stage…to initiate discussions with nutritional companies and other food companies who might be interested in this kind of a product,” said Samir Singh, Pharming’s Chief Business Officer. “There has been some interest from these companies already; we should be in a strong position to commercialize the product later this year or next year...“We believe that the benefit with our product is that it is a human protein, as opposed to a protein that is of animal origin,” said Singh, explaining why Pharming is going through the trouble of recombining DNA. “So, because it’s a human protein, it will interact with the human receptors in the gastrointestinal tract.”

But let us go back.
Old and New, At Home and Abroad, them that eats eats Meat, and they likes it fine and rare indeed...
Ten Famous Cases
And in Prehistoric times.
And everywhere in between...

"Analysis of 7,000-year-old bones dug up at Herxheim in south-west Germany suggest the region was a centre for cannibalism at a time when the first European farming society may have been collapsing.
Marks on bones show that bodies were skinned and had their flesh removed using techniques almost identical to those for butchering animals and one researcher suggested that some of the victims could have been spit-roasted.
Many of the bones appear to have been deliberately smashed to allow the living to suck out the marrow of the dead. Others bear the “chew marks” of teeth and while they are too indistinct to be certain scavenging animals were not to blame, the “distinctive distribution speaks strongly in favour” of having been made by hungry humans.
Cut marks on the bones are often so clear that archaeologists have been able to distinguish between which cuts were intended to skin and scalp the bodies and which were made to get at the meat."

Ancient human burial site shows evidence of mass cannibalism: 'Slaves were skinned and butchered like animals'

Corpse Medicine, Cannibalism and Aristocracy
The Secret Meat of Royalty;
Mummy Brains, Hanged-mans Blood, and Distilled Skull Juice

"They have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich recipes. But what is less well known is that the British royals also had a taste for human flesh.
A new book on medicinal cannibalism has revealed that possibly as recently as the end of the 18th century British royalty swallowed parts of the human body.
The author adds that this was not a practice reserved for monarchs but was widespread among the well-to-do in Europe.
Both Queen Mary II and her uncle King Charles II both took distilled human skull on their deathbeds in 1698 and 1685 respectively, according to Dr Sugg. Even as they denounced the barbaric cannibals of the New World, they applied, drank, or wore powdered Egyptian mummy, human fat, flesh, bone, blood, brains and skin."

Specialties of the House

"Obviously no modern restaurant could get away with serving human meat on a regular basis. A couple of years ago a restaurant in Brussels was closed down after horrified health inspectors found body-parts belonging to several women in the freezer. Police were forced to admit that such things happen more often than is widely suspected...
While there certainly are restaurants that serve human flesh to trusted (or unsuspecting) customers, those with a taste for it are more likely to find what they crave by being accepted into a circle of grands gourmets. These are groups of elite gourmets and epicureans, some of whom are so rich and influential that they are almost above the law. Basically these are people who can afford to buy any forbidden experience imaginable, and are also cautious and clever enough to get away with it."

Preacher, Teacher, Baker, Undertaker...

"Police arrested Andreas Pandy, a native of Hungary who now is a naturalized Belgian, after a search of his three houses in Brussels uncovered several bones -- including a human femur -- and two refrigerators packed with large chunks of meat of unknown origin. Police say they also found an urn containing ashes, and blood on a stairway.
The Pandy case is reminiscent of an accidental find in August 1996, when the bodies of three women were found in the freezers of a popular Lebanese restaurant in Brussels. One of the bodies was cut in half.
They are also part of a wider spate of violent crimes in Belgium.
A series of pedophile-related murders revealed over the past year in Belgium has disturbed many and provoked outrage, especially the mention of missing children and the discovery of bones and body parts.
A series of 28 daylight murders at supermarkets, known as the "Brabant Killings," in the south of the country in the 1980s has never been solved. Nor has the 1991 gunning down of socialist party patriarch Andre Cools.
And in southern Belgium, police are still looking for a serial killer who has cut up at least five victims before dumping their body parts along roads or rivers."