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Offline StSanta

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« Reply #30 on: January 29, 2003, 06:17:50 AM »
The reason there is a taboo about cannibalism is at least two fold; first, and most obvious, we don't like being considered food. So we abstain from eating our neighbor and he abstains from eating us. It's considered bad manners because it's not beneficial for the groups commitment to its members.

Secondly, it's about diseases. Other animals might have diseases, but we still eat them. In the case of many virii and bacteria, they cannot 'jump species', so we're safe. If we eat a human, there's no species jumping needed - and it's unsafer.

Plus there's much more meat on a pig. I mean, humans really aren't very meaty. Some are extremely fatty, but the overall muscle mass is relatively small compared to bowel size and bone structure. Plus, humans are dangerous little critters. They're sort of smart - and they're vicious like hell.

Unless the eating is more figuratively understood and performed by a man to a woman or alternatively by a woman to a woman.

That is a condoned practise in the Western world :)

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« Reply #31 on: January 29, 2003, 07:32:04 AM »
Vulcan: Look up some western medical cures in the 19th century. My favourite, fresh human blood to cure epilepsy.

 That, as well as many modern practices, has nothing to do with cannibalism. Humans were not specifically killed to obtain their parts and those were used not for nutrition or ritualistic purposes but for medical ones.

 Plenty of medications, including orally ingested, are produced from human tussues right now - blood products, hormonal preparates, transplants, etc.


 Airhead: Yes, in a steady diet maybe.

 That's not a cumulative effect like mercury. In order to get a spongiform encephalopathis you only need to ingest the contaminated tissue once. I think it's found in the brain and few other organs. Steady diet of human brains increases one's chances, but even one would be enough.


Ping: It was considered acceptable in cases of shipwreck to eat the dead.

 When the choice is to die of starvation? Do you believe in that situation the cultural norms still apply to be considered 'acceptable'?
 Of course how "common" that practice was is arguable. Thousands of cases of cannibalism were recorded in Russia in 1920s and in Ukraine in 1930s as a result of communist land reform policies that caused widespread starvation.

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« Reply #32 on: January 29, 2003, 08:25:11 AM »
And some case has been recorded in Naples in the immediate time after the flee of Germans and before the Allied came and let the food help was distribute.

A lot of people then was cooking leather from shoes in water.

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« Reply #33 on: January 29, 2003, 08:29:25 AM »
mt... ya gotta admit that slavery and canniblism by entire tribes/groups is kinda rare today.   I am quite sure that if it were a group of mormons in ooota doing it that their race and location would have been in the news.

but.... it wasn't
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« Reply #34 on: January 29, 2003, 08:35:00 AM »
eating your enemy's heart makes you stronger:D

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« Reply #35 on: January 29, 2003, 08:39:20 AM »
hey, if it helps their starvation and aids problem over there, I'm all for it ...................
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« Reply #36 on: January 29, 2003, 12:30:12 PM »
Wasn't there a small force of Japanese soldiers in Borneo (?) that ate their victims for quite a while. They were cut off and had no supplies, so their CO took this decision.
Maybe its a myth, dunno.
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« Reply #37 on: January 29, 2003, 12:43:58 PM »
I have had lunch at the Alfred Packer deli.

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« Reply #38 on: January 29, 2003, 12:46:02 PM »
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Originally posted by Angus
Wasn't there a small force of Japanese soldiers in Borneo (?) that ate their victims for quite a while. They were cut off and had no supplies, so their CO took this decision.
Maybe its a myth, dunno.


Isnt that from a movie? "Me and the king" or something like that? With Nick Nolte.

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« Reply #39 on: January 29, 2003, 02:12:50 PM »
stop talking about food, I'm hungry :P

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« Reply #40 on: January 29, 2003, 02:14:43 PM »
Maybe they were starving and no food was available.
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« Reply #41 on: January 29, 2003, 02:17:17 PM »
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mt... ya gotta admit that slavery and canniblism by entire tribes/groups is kinda rare today.   I am quite sure that if it were a group of mormons in ooota doing it that their race and location would have been in the news.

but.... it wasn't
lazs


Ever heard the Donner Party described as "European Cannibals"?





Me either.

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« Reply #42 on: January 29, 2003, 02:18:31 PM »
I've heard that African Congo meat is actually a bit strong tasting... on the gamey side, and it requires a long soaking in tomato juice and meat tenderizer.
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« Reply #43 on: January 29, 2003, 02:22:14 PM »
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Once again with the cultural imperialism. Just because canabilism isn't practiced in the west it automatically bad?


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« Reply #44 on: January 29, 2003, 02:25:32 PM »
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Ever heard the Donner Party described as "European Cannibals"?


What is the donner party? Never heard about it/they/he/she/whatever