🟢 1. Human Composting: Where It’s Legal
Human composting—also called natural organic reduction (NOR)—has been legalized in 13 U.S. states as of mid‑June 2025 orderofthegooddeath.com+6recompose.life+6en.wikipedia.org+6apnews.com+15us-funerals.com+15en.wikipedia.org+15. The process legally turns human remains into soil via controlled microbial decomposition.
✅ States where it’s legal now:
- Washington (2019, effective May 1, 2020)
- Colorado (April 2021, with services from August 2021)
- Oregon (June 2021, effective January 2022)
- Vermont (June 2022, effective January 2023)
- California (law passed Sept 2022, implementation scheduled for 2027)
- New York (signed Dec 2022, effective Aug 7, 2024)
- Nevada (May 2023, effective Jan 1, 2024)
- Arizona (April 2024, effective 2024)
- Delaware (May 2024, effective immediately)
- Maryland (May 2024, effective Oct 2024)
- Minnesota (May 2024, effective July 2025)
- Maine (Aug 2024, effective immediately)
- Georgia (May 2025, effective July 2025) earthfuneral.com+7us-funerals.com+7en.wikipedia.org+7en.wikipedia.org
Note: California and Minnesota have not yet begun the service; California’s begins in 2027, Minnesota in July 2025.
🔍 2. Why People Choose Human Composting
- Environmental sustainability: It emits far fewer carbon emissions than cremation and saves land versus traditional burial apnews.com+2wired.com+2time.com+2.
- Cost-effectiveness: Typically cheaper than burial and sometimes even cremation.
- Family and ecological benefits: The resulting soil can be returned for planting trees or rehabilitating lands (e.g., Recompose partners with Forterra in WA) apnews.com+6en.wikipedia.org+6time.com+6.
- Philosophical/cultural reasons: Viewed by supporters as a natural cycle—“to dust we return.”
🏭 3. Providers and Where They Operate
- Recompose – Seattle/Kent, WA; pioneer; soil used locally npr.org+3time.com+3en.wikipedia.org+3recompose.life+4en.wikipedia.org+4us-funerals.com+4.
- Earth Funeral Group – facilities now in WA, OR, NV en.wikipedia.org+11greenmatters.com+11en.wikipedia.org+11.
- Return Home, formerly Adamah – operates in WA en.wikipedia.org+1us-funerals.com+1.
- The Natural Funeral, Colorado – offers NOR services apnews.com+2greenmatters.com+2us-funerals.com+2.
- Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve – NY, considering offering soil transformation greenmatters.com+1npr.org+1.
Clients typically include eco-conscious individuals planning ahead, families choosing greener options, or people who want their remains to actively benefit the earth.
🍽️ 4. Cannibalism & Soylent Green References
Is Soylent Green (1973) based on real events?
No—“Soylent Green” is fiction: a dystopian film where processed food is secretly made from people. The novel “Make Room! Make Room!” inspired it. There is no real “Soylent Green” made from humans.
Satirical shows playing on it:
- Channel 4’s “Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat”: a 2023 mockumentary posing as a reality show but fully satirical wired.com+3en.wikipedia.org+3npr.org+3en.wikipedia.org+1reuters.com+1.
- No legitimate evidence of shows where contestants unknowingly ate human flesh.
🍖 5. “Human Meat” Flesh-Growing Companies
- BiteLabs (c. 2014): proposed lab-grown human-salami from celebrity tissue samples—but this remained a concept and never sold commercially yahoo.com+1latimes.com+1.
- Human Meat Project: a conceptual art piece, claimed not real apnews.com.
No credible companies are currently growing and selling edible human-derived meat.
⚠️ 6. Risks of Eating Human Flesh
Although not practiced, theoretical harms include:
- Prion diseases (like Creutzfeldt-Jakob): neurodegenerative disorders from misfolded proteins—humans are excluded from human composting precisely for this risk apnews.comrecompose.life.
- Pathogens: bacteria, viruses, parasites could survive in underprocessed flesh.
- Toxins/heavy metals: bioaccumulation in organs could poison consumers.
- Ethical and legal consequences: cannibalism is illegal; mentally harmful; carries heavy criminal penalties.
🎯 7. Why This Shouldn’t Be Normalized
- Moral repugnance: eating humans violates deep cultural/taboo lines.
- Health hazards: prions, pathogens, toxins pose severe medical risks.
- Legal status: cannibalism is illegal in all jurisdictions across the U.S.
- Psychological trauma: moral harm to individuals and communities.
✅ Summary Table:
| Topic | Reality |
|---|---|
| Human composting legal | 13 states (WA, CO, OR, VT, CA*, NY, NV, AZ, DE, MD, MN*, ME, GA*) |
| Availability | Active in many; CA/MN begin later |
| Providers | Recompose, Earth Funeral, Return Home, The Natural Funeral |
| Soylent Green | Fictional, not real |
| Human-salami companies | Concept only, no products on market |
| Health risks | Prions, pathogens, toxins—extreme harm |
| Cannibalism | Illegal everywhere; cultural taboo |
*CA effective 2027, MN July 2025, GA July 2025.
🧠 Final Thoughts
- Human composting is a legal, environmentally friendly, respectful alternative in select states—with regulated and safe practices.
- Cannibalism (including edible flesh, Soylent Green scenarios, or human meat products) is purely fictional or satirical, carries enormous health and legal risks, and morally unacceptable.
🛑 Disclaimer:
This blog is for educational and investigative purposes only. No part of this article promotes or encourages cannibalism, human meat consumption, or conspiracy. All claims are based on publicly available information, legal facts, or verified satire.
📚 About the Author:
A.L. Childers is a researcher and author of over 200 books, uncovering hidden truths, untold history, and cultural deception. Her work aims to empower readers to question what they’re told, protect what’s sacred, and preserve what’s real.
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