If you want fun ethical issues (and a terrific SciFi read), pick up a copy of Samuel R. Delany's wonderful "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand". It's about an intergalactic human society where one of the main (human) character's love/lust interest is a large sentient reptile, and the main thing on the menu (for humans, not lizards)is cloned human meat. One of the major industries is to take a snippet of your DNA, clone up a few hundred pounds of your own meat and put it out on the market. If you taste good enough, people will buy you, and you can grow and market more of yourself and get the huge royalties. Your family name will be famous for great meat and you'll be rich! (Like Oscar Meyer, except it would really be Oscar Meyer). In the novel, no one in that society would do anything as morally repugnant, hygenically revolting, culinarily nauseating, and ethically wierd as killing a living animal to eat chunks of it for dinner. Be warned (and encouraged); everything Delaney writes will be similarly...ummm...thought provoking.
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If you want fun ethical issues (and a terrific SciFi read), pick up a copy of Samuel R. Delany's wonderful "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand". It's about an intergalactic human society where one of the main (human) character's love/lust interest is a large sentient reptile, and the main thing on the menu (for humans, not lizards)is cloned human meat. One of the major industries is to take a snippet of your DNA, clone up a few hundred pounds of your own meat and put it out on the market. If you taste good enough, people will buy you, and you can grow and market more of yourself and get the huge royalties. Your family name will be famous for great meat and you'll be rich! (Like Oscar Meyer, except it would really be Oscar Meyer). In the novel, no one in that society would do anything as morally repugnant, hygenically revolting, culinarily nauseating, and ethically wierd as killing a living animal to eat chunks of it for dinner. Be warned (and encouraged); everything Delaney writes will be similarly...ummm...thought provoking.