Re: Can I Open A Business In New York City Selling Human Meat For Food Consumption?

On 3/31/2024 5:56 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

NYC’s “beta” chatbot in action
<https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/nycs-government-chatbot-is-lying-about-city-laws-and-regulations/>:
 Q: Can I open a business in New York City selling human meat for food
consumption?
 A: Yes, you can open a business in New York City selling human meat for
food consumption. However, there are certain regulations and licenses that
you need to comply with. Here are the steps you need to follow ...

well, as far as I know cannibalism is not illegal under federal NY law (in fact Idaho is the only US state that has a law against cannibalism as such). The problem is simply that nobody thinks it is necessary to have such a law on the books, as getting the meat to actually perform cannibalism is rather difficult.
(murder is illegal, desecration of bodies is illegal, trading body parts is heavily regulated, but eating the flesh of your own or freely provided body parts might not necessarily be illegal)
here's a story about someone who served tacos with his own meat to friends: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gykmn7/legal-ethical-cannibalism-human-meat-tacos-reddit-wtf
Now could you run a business serving human meat? Very debatable, as you'd quickly run into suppl issues. But the question was if you could open one... ok, this might still run afoul of some laws. But who knows? We would have to ask a lawyer for that.