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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:34 pm
by Bavarian Raven
technically from a biological viewpoint there is nothing "wrong" with eating human meat...it breaks down into the same proteins, fats, and the such...
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:36 pm
by riggable
dustn64 wrote:No, I would rather eat my own arm than someone else's. But I would prefer neither.
Thats weird, dude. Honestly, thats not right, where did your innate sense of survival go?
Ehh, if it was either eat it or die, I would, but other than that, probably not. I would want to eat one of those abercrombie and fitch models, because they have really well developed muscles, but don't do shit all day. Therefore, they'd have good meat that hadn't gotten too hard and gritty.
..I thought about that question entirely too much.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:07 pm
by Hitman079
Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed by accident, and cooked and ate it. He reported that, "It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable."
that's from wikipedia, to dispel all pork/chicken myths..it's BEEF. (spit your veal out now)
and also, it's pretty disturbing for those who did enjoy the taste of humans like some murderers such as
albert fish
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:08 pm
by Skittles!
I love how some people say it's disgusting to eat human but would gladly eat any other animal. Pathetic.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:12 pm
by riggable
Skittles! wrote::lol: I love how some people say it's disgusting to eat human but would gladly eat any other animal. Pathetic.
not really.. its really common in animals to eat lots of other species, but they won't eat their own species.
In fact, name one mammal that does do this...
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:15 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Skittles! wrote::lol: I love how some people say it's disgusting to eat human but would gladly eat any other animal. Pathetic.
What you on about? Beef tastes good. As does chicken, turkey, venison, elk, bison, trout, salmon, shrimp, crab, lobster...
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:15 pm
by Hitman079
riggable wrote:not really.. its really common in animals to eat lots of other species, but they won't eat their own species.
In fact, name one mammal that does do this...
humans
look, cannibalism in most any other specie is usually out of either a long period of starvation OR when the mother eats its offspring to prevent any suffering. lions are fine with eating antelope and gazelle and whatever the hell, but of course their own species would be their own last resort. i don't think it would make me hypocritical that i would gladly devour a steak but push away a plate of some cut of human.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:15 pm
by Skittles!
riggable wrote:Skittles! wrote::lol: I love how some people say it's disgusting to eat human but would gladly eat any other animal. Pathetic.
not really.. its really common in animals to eat lots of other species, but they won't eat their own species.
In fact, name one mammal that does do this...
A mammal? Tasmanian devil?
You just had to say mammal. Boo.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:16 pm
by Hitman079
i think dogs eat their own kind, but that's only in the situation of the mother and puppy; in the same put-you-out-of-your-pain scenario.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:18 pm
by Skittles!
muy_thaiguy wrote:Skittles! wrote::lol: I love how some people say it's disgusting to eat human but would gladly eat any other animal. Pathetic.
What you on about? Beef tastes good. As does chicken, turkey, venison, elk, bison, trout, salmon, shrimp, crab, lobster...
I would eat a human, if cooked correctly.
Hell, there was a whole family that ate nothing but humans, but they were inbred. Long live Scottish inbredness!
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:19 pm
by Neoteny
I've heard that people who eat other people (the rumor was in reference to a serial killer) tend to have a distinct smell about them, something about the breakdown of our flesh. But I couldn't give any evidence either way. Something interesting to think about, I think.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:20 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Skittles! wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:Skittles! wrote::lol: I love how some people say it's disgusting to eat human but would gladly eat any other animal. Pathetic.
What you on about? Beef tastes good. As does chicken, turkey, venison, elk, bison, trout, salmon, shrimp, crab, lobster...
I would eat a human, if cooked correctly.
Hell, there was a whole family that ate nothing but humans, but they were inbred. Long live Scottish inbredness!
I guess you have never heard of the Donner Party then.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:20 pm
by jay_a2j
I would rather starve to death then eat a human.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:21 pm
by riggable
the point is, its not pathetic for humans not to, under normal conditions, want to eat their own kind.
All species are wired for their own success, if they ate themselves to extinction, that wouldn't be very effective, hmm.
I think, like some sorts of termites and ants do kill each other though, which, yes skittles, is why I said mammals
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:22 pm
by Hitman079
i don't think the Donner party cooked their humans.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:23 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Hitman079 wrote:i don't think the Donner party cooked their humans.
They might have, but I am unsure.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:24 pm
by Skittles!
muy_thaiguy wrote:Skittles! wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:Skittles! wrote::lol: I love how some people say it's disgusting to eat human but would gladly eat any other animal. Pathetic.
What you on about? Beef tastes good. As does chicken, turkey, venison, elk, bison, trout, salmon, shrimp, crab, lobster...
I would eat a human, if cooked correctly.
Hell, there was a whole family that ate nothing but humans, but they were inbred. Long live Scottish inbredness!
I guess you have never heard of the Donner Party then.
Obviously not.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:26 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Short story, a group of people that were caught in winter during the Westward expansion era, and were forced to eat each other. Only, they didn't exactly wait fir someone to die before doing so...
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:27 pm
by Skittles!
muy_thaiguy wrote:Short story, a group of people that were caught in winter during the Westward expansion era, and were forced to eat each other. Only, they didn't exactly wait fir someone to die before doing so...
Meh, nice and crisp that way
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:29 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Skittles! wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:Short story, a group of people that were caught in winter during the Westward expansion era, and were forced to eat each other. Only, they didn't exactly wait fir someone to die before doing so...
Meh, nice and crisp that way
Bad thing was, their guides were the first to be killed. And it was a fairly large party, with only about 7 or so people left by the time they were able to get out of that area.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:29 pm
by Neoteny
riggable wrote:the point is, its not pathetic for humans not to, under normal conditions, want to eat their own kind.
All species are wired for their own success, if they ate themselves to extinction, that wouldn't be very effective, hmm.
I think, like some sorts of termites and ants do kill each other though, which, yes skittles, is why I said mammals
There are some reports of false vampire bats and golden-mantled ground squirrels exhibiting cannibalism. Just google either mammal with "cannibal."
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:29 pm
by mybike_yourface
capitalism is cannibalism
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:30 pm
by Hitman079
they didn't wait for someone to die? i thought they got stranded in a cabin of some sort, and after their horses/ bulls/ whatever the hell they had with them got lost in the snow, they sent out parties to find them, and after trying to eat hide, which was too tough and just impossible to eat, they turned to eating humans. i think they ate the corpses of those already dead.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:31 pm
by mybike_yourface
discovery chanel showed sharks cannibalising in the womb till only one was left. pretty amazing.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:32 pm
by Bavarian Raven
grizzlies will eat grizzly cubs if food is scarce