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Student at St. Cloud state doesn't realize that the website ManBeef.com is satire. Writes editorial about it. The school pulled the article, but I saved it, so here it is in its entirety:

ManBeef hits a meat market near you
By Andrea Marthaler/Associate Editor

There are few things in life that surprise me anymore. For the last couple of years I have lived in St. Cloud and I like to think I have experienced situations where I handled what was dealt me very well. And, without being completely shocked or having a hard time understanding the reasoning behind these experiences.

But for once in my life I came across something I am having a hard time understanding and I am actually very bothered by it.

While surfing the Internet the other day, I came across a web site called ManBeef.com. At first I thought it was a joke but then I started reading into it. It was all true. There is an actual company out there that sells human meat to individuals who are “searching for a sophisticated gourmet meat.”

The web site has everything from manbeef recipes to descriptions of types of cuts on a human and describes the process of actually acquiring human meat. Not to mention the numerous pictures of men making cuts on a dead body.

But what really got me was the diagram describing the different parts of the human body as the ‘arm/forearm, shoulder blade as ideal for grinding and minced meat or soft rounds- excellent for ManBeefs and barbecues.” I won’t get too detailed since I know many of you will want to go check out this web site.

Now, there are several things that come to mind when I sit and ponder the fact that there is web site available that is basically promoting cannibalism.

I haven’t had too much opportunity in the past to experience cannibalism through books or movies, but I do remember watching the movie, “Alive” about a plane crashing in the Andes Mountains in Peru. Based on a true story, the passengers were reduced to having to eat the frozen bodies of their fellow passengers that had died.

Watching that movie I could hardly even fathom the idea that they would eat human meat. But it also meant life or death. That’s a different situation than advertising the selling of human meat for gourmet dining.

I think the fact that this product is being advertised and sold over the Internet means a lot more than if this was just on the black market.

This site is open to everyone including children. I believe in being able to access web sites, but the long-term effect of this kind of information on generations to come, should concern people.

Not only are children seeing that it is OK to eat human meat, but what’s going to happen to people in the future when they die?

Instead of being laid peacefully to rest, our bodies will be carved and our meat inspected and if we don’t pass inspection, our remains will be discarded in the nearest dumpsite.

There’s just so much of this kind of stuff we can allow to be broadcast to our young audience. ManBeef is new to marketing its goods on the Internet but our society is not new to viewing and experiencing these type of products of inhumane measure on the web or in video games and movies.

ManBeef has made its market on the expense of dead humans being sold to cadaver vending companies and turning around and selling it for steaks and hamburgers.

Sure it may sound gross now but ManBeef has been around since 1982. They have grown from just having a handful of customers to serving to people in 15 countries around the world. And, they have three headquarters based in the east, central and western regions of the United States. Now you can’t tell me that is pretty good considering the product they are selling.

It just kind of makes you wonder what the basis of our functioning society is going to be in a couple of decades.

I hope the fact that there is a company growing and thriving on selling human meat for people to enjoy bothers other people. Just like watching the movie, “Event Horizon”, should bother you.

Not being able to understand eating human meat and taking a stand against it could perhaps bring us one step closer to understanding the human spirit. It is important to celebrate one’s life instead of chopping and grinding them up for McDonald’s hamburgers.