Not wanting to have to explain things to you children is exactly whats wrong with parenting today.

If they’re too young to understand, explain it anyways until their bored out of their minds with their inability to comprehend. Problem Solved.

If they aren’t too young, you should damn well be explaining it.  It might be hard, but that’s your problem, not society’s. You’re the one who wanted kids (speaking to all parents)

The idea that this could somehow traumatize your child or be hard to explain is ignorant and silly at best. Its ok when its animals but not when its humans? Doesnt make sense to me. Meat is meat, flesh is flesh, blood is blood. We’re all made of it. Deal with it. Dont see whats so hard to explain about that. Hard for the child to proccess without getting upset? Maybe. But thats life. Its a bitch. Why’d you bring them into this world only to shelter them from these inevitable realizations of our mortal nature? Whats so valuable about an ignorant childhood?

I’d love to see the science behind most parents desire to shelter their children from these realities when they obviously would give any logical person a competitive advantage to be comfortable with, the earlier the better.

I question anyone’s decision to have kids who isn’t completely comfortable with parsing the topics of violence, sex and human anatomy and mortality.

Pro tip: If you cant explain fake human body parts in a butcher shop to your kids, you shouldn’t have had any.

Also, as the guy above said, this is in London. Please read before posting comments that make you look bad.

I wouldn’t want my kids to see it either. I wouldn’t want to have to explain it. Plus, I seriously doubt they would be capable of processing it. These are people who don’t know what a TV commercial is – too difficult to explain. This is also why it’s fine for them to see Gunther von Hagens *real* dead bodies at a show, but it’s not fine for them to see pretend torture-cannibalism PR on the street. 

I think it’s a great display though. Very artful. The ham body is particularly good. And it *is* very reminiscent of Mark Prent (below), who I also admire.

This reminds me of an exhibit that I once saw in the Meatpacking District.  The area used to have a few taxi garages that had small kitchens in the front that served up plates of rice with one topping–usually a chicken or vegan curry–for a buck or so to the drivers.

One enterprising artist worked with the front kitchen and the drivers to take lifemasks of their faces, and then made tofu models of their faces.  These in turn were served up by the scoop, looking up from several different flavors of curry sauce.  The owner of the joint seemed bemused by the crowds of arthounds suddenly invading his business, but was very happy at the enormous cashflow generated.

The curry sauce was pretty damn good, even though the tofu was a bit chalky (apparently the artist needed to use a bit more edible lime than usual in order to make it take the shape of the silicon molds better).

They should consider bringing this to Canada for a permanent Halloween theme. We have a few scary theme attractions where gore fans would love this kind of silly stuff.

I’m not a big fan of Resident Evil’s franchise normally but this has me intrigued and I’ll be sure to watch the movie if it’s released as well as the game.

Anyway the world is filled with violence, the world *is* violence. Better start building that spaceship to mars.

I’d have to eat alone because I’m pretty sure I’m the only person I know who’d get a thrill out of tucking into a “human hand” X-D 

<- the world's least squeamish woman? Well, a nominee for the title at least, surely.

Heard the expression, the closer the bone the sweeter the meat? HANDS ARE ALL CLOSE TO BONE!

Meh. I’ve seen worse.