If you were starving to death and someone brought you a plate of food, would you question what they were feeding you? According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, our physiological needs, which includes food, need to be met before we can focus on anything else (Simons, J.A., Irwin, D.B., & Drinnien B.A., 1987). Unemployed homeless people won’t try to find a job if their basic needs aren’t being met. What if instead of burying the millions of people who die each year, we repurpose their bodies to feed those in need? We could decrease the number of deadly toxins in the air while saving people money, repurpose resources we are wasting on funerals, and create new job opportunities.
Families spend up to $10,000 on coffins alone for their loved ones (Federal Trade Commission, 2012). We would be paying the family for the opportunity to use their loved one’s body to help feed the homeless. Many would argue that cremation is a cheaper alternative to burial, but the cremation process releases toxic chemicals into the air such as Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/polychlorinated dibenzofurans and mercury (Mari, …show more content…
Most caskets are made with materials such as wood, plastic, or metal. We could be using these resources for a better purpose. If we look at the wood used to make caskets, we know wood comes from trees which provide oxygen. Why are we cutting down trees to create a glorified box for a hunk of meat? Adding human meat to the menu could increase the number of food resources we have. In Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, he analyzed how much meat we could get from a one year old child, which is enough to make a meal for two people (Swift, J., 1729). A full grown adult could provide many meals for those starving to death on the streets. After the basic need of hunger is met, these people who are in unfortunate circumstances will have the motivation to look for a way out of their
Families spend up to $10,000 on coffins alone for their loved ones (Federal Trade Commission, 2012). We would be paying the family for the opportunity to use their loved one’s body to help feed the homeless. Many would argue that cremation is a cheaper alternative to burial, but the cremation process releases toxic chemicals into the air such as Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/polychlorinated dibenzofurans and mercury (Mari, …show more content…
Most caskets are made with materials such as wood, plastic, or metal. We could be using these resources for a better purpose. If we look at the wood used to make caskets, we know wood comes from trees which provide oxygen. Why are we cutting down trees to create a glorified box for a hunk of meat? Adding human meat to the menu could increase the number of food resources we have. In Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, he analyzed how much meat we could get from a one year old child, which is enough to make a meal for two people (Swift, J., 1729). A full grown adult could provide many meals for those starving to death on the streets. After the basic need of hunger is met, these people who are in unfortunate circumstances will have the motivation to look for a way out of their