I have just finished watching Silence of the Lambs, and it made me think about cannibalism. Do people really think it’s that bad to eat human (raw) flesh (meat). I mean if you were to give your pet dog raw meat isn’t it supposed to make it vicious make the dog want more of it ?, would that be the same with us humans? Wasn’t there a type of tribe that still eats flesh? Would people still be able to be cannibalistic if they didn’t kill each other. If we started to eat flesh and 20 or so years from now would everyone be considered as vampires, with only the strongest surviving?

The possibility of us being Cannibalistic is such on a low rate because cannibalism is more or less forbidden.

Cannibalism seems to be taboo. Personally, the very thought of it makes me feel nauseous.

Whenever anybody mentions the word Cannibalism I always think of the case below:

Cannibalism
Cannibalism, one of the last taboos, has been well documented for centuries. Sometimes the motivation for this frowned-upon deed may be ritualistic or an act of aggression.

Survival cannibalism made headlines after the 1973 Andes air crash. Sixteen Catholics had stayed alive by eating those who had died.

The Vatican decreed that, although those who had chosen to starve were not guilty of the sin of suicide, those who practised cannibalism had not sinned either.

Carlos Paez, one of the survivors explained how he coped with the decision to turn cannibal. “We ate human flesh to survive... When you die your soul leaves and what remains is the body.”

The turning point came when Paez and his companions knew the search for them had been abandoned. “We didn’t exist any more in the world, we had to take a determination and we didn’t have anything to eat. That’s the reality."

Canibalism - Andes Air Crash

saw this on TV on a programmed titled " TRAPPED ".
I was like.. WOW! Gross! but when you're there all you could think of is to survive.

Yes, indeed. I guess if somebody is truly starving they will eat anything.

I remember seeing a made-for-TV film on it once, that was quite a few years ago mind.

Check this out:

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&...30-f775313a6fb9


Real live vampires, i admire those dudes. The main guy they interview, is very mature about it. THAT i can deal with, but like.....taking flesh by force and draining innocent victims against their will is just messed up.

Actually, in Papau New Guinea, they used to be cannibalistic until they started getting sick. It turns out that there was a disease (basically mad cow, but in human form) that was killing the people. The had to stop the practice or else it would have destroyed the whole tribe. There are so many diseases that could be contracted by eating one of our own. So, not only morally wrong (IMO) but health wise not a very good idea.

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While cannibalism is illegal in India, there's a fairly large cult that consume their deceased loved ones.

The Yanomamo do also.

I'm happy to eat anything. I think in the case of hunting down humans to do it, I would pass up. But other than that, no issues.

As for a real suddent world choice:

Wouldn't we run out of humans a bit quick?

There's rumours of a small number of tribes deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea that occasionally still do it. Don't know if it's true. Wouldn't surprise me though. Some of them are in very remote locations.

I wouldn't be surprised, either. Some people can't let go of traditions.

well the good bad news, that's not a rumours! some tribe in borneo still hunt and eat/drink blood of their enemies.

my dad's friend told me how he survived the ambush of local tribe. they know how you are by smelling your sweat.

I believe the one cannibalistic tribe had several deformities.

huh ? they absolutely normal people, and their chick are fine looking too.

why?! what's the reason?
eating a love one would make you one?

Ok so suppose we cooked the flesh and then ate it, would that reduce the risk of catching something or other? Is it really morally wrong? I mean humans are just another species of animals, and animals do eat there own kind all the time. So why should we really be any different.

we eat kebas dont we, so eating a human would be easy

There are no REAL LIVE vampires. Sorry.

I think it has to do with killing. To people, killing an animal is not wrong (it's truth). Killing a human is. To eat, you must kill... we don't eat creatures that died naturally, I think it's not healthy

Actually there are some parts of animals that even cooking the meat isn't safe. And I find it wrong, it just seems gross. I don't think I could do it, even if I was starving, I would rather eat bugs than human.

Man, you are promoting our country's tourism in a wrong way.
But hey, I agree with you about the chicks!

Alrite, in West Papua, until the 1950's, cannibalism was still common, but nowadays, the governement illegalize cannibalism in Indonesia, including on that province. But yeah, drinking the blood of the victim was very common too back then!

Cannibalism

I reckon if people were naturally eating each other, it'd be a bit tense eh? Let's just say there are some people who hunt down others. The word can spread and people start taking weapons with them for protection and there can be a lot of violence on the streets. Sorry if this sounds a bit nuts, I've been watching my "cheerful" dvds again.

better keep my firearm in a handy location. yea it would be like resident evil.. plus i don't eat meat whatsoever (unless im stuck on an island and im desperate then maybe) so i don't think i willl become a cannibal that easily.



alot of people believe in alot of random things these days.


let me guess the rear end of an animal.

I would not have any problems morally with eating a human. If it had been reared for the sole purpose of being butchered and sold as meat. I can't see that happening in my lifetime though.

I sure as hell hope not!

Why?

The thought of it makes me want to hurl. If I look at a guy and say "yummy" I am most definitely NOT thinking of sawing off a peice of him and throwing it on the grill! I grew up on a farm and butchered, cut and wrapped many animals. Once you see where the meat comes form, it gives you a different outlook. I actually refused to eat meat for a year when I was little because of it.

That is the same kind of mentality that allowed slavery to flourish; they were not humans, they were property. People convinced themselves of that and that is how it was believed to be for a very long time.

You have just taken it a thousand fold further into murder and canninalism, whch is rather disturbing.

Thats fine but i don't have a problem with eating meat and i know where it comes from. I take it you now eat meat?



Before you jump the gun too much bunny.... I was not condoning it I was simply saying as a meat eater I feel little compassion for the burger i eat even though I know it was once a living breathing creature. I imagine I would feel the same way about a human that was raised for the same purpose. killing something to eat it is totally morally wrong in the eyes of a vegan. They may consider you and I to be barbarians for our consumption of once living creatures. P.S. I don't condone slavery either but I have items in my home that have likely come from a sweat shop, as do you I'm sure.......

Yes, but there are still meats that I don't eat. And it took a lot of talking to by my parents and grandparents to eat it again. But, due to the problems in the raising of meat animals, I am seriously considering cutting it out of my diet again.

Just out of interest (and you dont have to tell me) which animals do you eat and which do you not eat?

Well it is a long way from the t-shirt I am wearing from vietnam that some gall was paid 2 dollars a day to make and cannibalism, so in my opinion it really isnt a good analogy, Those folks are not slaves.

To clear the record, I am a vegitarian.

The irony is that the reason I do not eat meat is actually related to the topic at hand; a call I had regarding a kid that got hit by a train doing 80 mph. I wont go into details but I found out by horrible slip and fall mistake on a hillside recovering the body parts for the coronor that human flesh tastes like beef. To say the least I was turned off to the flavor of meat and really havent had the urge to eat meat since. So I dont eat meat...

I eat chicken, turkey, beef and pork. Some fish and seafood. Will not eat goat, mutton, rabbit, dark fishes, duck, goose, deer...basically anything that is very strong in flavour or "gamey". I didn't eat pork for a while after Bio 11 an learning about the similarity between humans and pigs, but, I am a sucker for bacon.

I think it comes from the same creature......



I don't eat rabbit. Though I have owned a lucky rabbit foot in the past.

OMG, Fluffy! I gagged when I read that! Poor you! I don't blame you at all!

I wouldn't eat human because they probably wouldn't taste very good.

Yes, that is why I said I didn't eat pork for a while Meaning that when I said I am a sucker for bacon, I started eating pork again, silly!

This is kind of disturbing to some people so if you just ate, you may wish to skip this post...






I went on a call of a teen who tried unsuccessfull to dodge an amtrak train doing 80mph. He got hit head on and thrown about 250 feet through heavy foliage, bushes, trees...basically he got ripped to pieces by not only the initial impact but also the subsequent impact with branches and trees trunks. When we got on scene two of the other firefighters and I volunteered to climb up and down the side of the hillside to collect the body parts to put in a body bag so that the family could have something to bury.

It took a few hours but we found most everything. The last thing we found was the trunk of his body which still had his left leg on it. You can imagine how bloody and broken the body was, but we need to get the body into the bag so that it could be hoisted up to the top of the hill. Two of us were there on the steep hillside, in harnesses hanging from ropes for support. We got the bodybag out and in position and needed to manuever the body into it and zip it up. There were only two of us doing it; the plan was that I would grab the top part of the body, and doug would grab the bottom part of the body and we would wrestle it into the bag, zip it up, put it in the basket and send it up the hill.

We were wearing Nitrile gloves as there was blood everywhere, and they do not provide very good grip under lifting conditions. We got into position and as soon as we began to lift the body from wear it was, it shifted and slipped a little; we both lost our grip and I slid down the hill a few feet. The mangled leg that doug was holding onto slipped out of his hand and came loose, it flopped down towards me as I was looking up at it and I got hit square in the face with the leg which was torn open and exposed with bloody muscle and bone...It happened instantly;too quick to react.

...my mouth was open as I had been breathing heavy from all of the work...

I got a mouthful of the bloody dead boys leg.

That is how I know what human flesh tastes like, and why I became a vegitarian.

Ahh but how do most of us know!! I have heard tell that human flesh actually tastes a lot like pork. But may i ask, why do you think humans probably wouldn't taste good? Imagine a cow in a field and a person in a field. The person would likely be cleaner and generally more pleasing on the eye. Based on that I would imagine the human would taste better. It's all hypothetical of course.




ahhh, i mis read that I don't much like pork myself. However, I agree with you that bacon is pretty hard to resist.

omg fluffy . I wouldnt eat meat after that either .

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I dare say that would put a lot of people off! However, (and I am not making light of what was a truly unpleasant and upsetting experience) if the meat had been cooked, and the circumstances completely different you may not have found the taste as bad. Just a thought.

Eeeeeew! Fluffybunny,

Did you happened too accidently swallow some of the blood?

*Gagging*

better than swallow body pieces .. UGH....

my geography teacher told me that when they interviewed people who are cannibal and they said what does human meat taste like they replied it taste like pork.
fluffybunny that must of suck accidently tasting human flesh. good on you for become a vegetarian i don't see why anyone would not become one after that experience
for the record im a vegetarian also.
funny if when human eats all the animals in the world and they crave meat so much that they start eating each other.

If I was in the type of situation where I had no choice but to kill someone and eat them I would.

Let's just hope were never trapped in a desert somewhere or on an island together because I have absolutely no personal reservations about killing you and eating your flesh if I have to.

Unfortunately I did. blood and ...tissue...It was considered a bioexposure, and I ended up having to go to the hospital and go through the same process as if I had been exposed to a needle stick with patients blood...blood tests...

First, Fluffy, MAJOR sympathy on a horrible experience!

Secondly, this thread is a bit disturbing. It sounds to me as if the original poster is wanting someone to say, "yeah! Great idea! Go have some long pork!" and the very idea of raising humans for meat is just so wrong on so many levels that I can't even begin to address it. If you are sitting around wondering what it would be like to eat human flesh, you need to get off the Internet and go find some help.