cannibalism

ok here is some strange things about eating habits:
in polynesia/melanesia ( all these islands in the pacific) there are quite a lot of evidence that cannibalism was quite widespread. This is not a joke, it's a fact, and archeologists have found loads of mass graves with human bones and pig/dog/and other animals bones, all put in the same grave as a result of a big feast.
Today, i think it's nothing to be afraid of, there isn't, almost surely. They still eat dog meat in many places though, and at first i tought, "disgusting, inhuman" but as a vegan, for me i doesnt matter actually, it's meat, why should i feel less sorry for a pig than a dog? i mean, really? at least, the dog might have had a free/fun life while living unlike all these horrible concentration camp factories for chickens/eggs/pigs/cows etc in the west...
Anyway: it's interesting to note that in the islands where cannibalism was the most widespread, the population, in average is the fattest (samoa, tonga for instance). People there are REALLY big and very very fat. They love to eat all kind of unhealthy food like spam and corned beef and just love all kind of meat. they can still make jokes of the ancient cannibal times (maybe not so ancient....!) and refer to humans as "long pig" because this is what human flesh is supposed to taste....( how do they know?)
the point of all this? none, really, except the morbid pleasure of flesh....

 

ya know , your so right about 1 thing, isnt it strange how they find it perfectly ok to eat 1 dead thing & another is disgusting?..cows & chickeens are ok, but not rats or humans?
what the hells the difference? a dead animal (we are animals after all) is a dead animal, no matter how many legs it has..
they gat all worked up over stem cell research, because they're extracted from fetuses, yet they have no problem eatting chicken fetuses?
why is it when a cow is killed they eat it, but when its a humanthey burryit..if dead flesh is food, isnt a graveyard just a wasted feast?

yea maybe some meat eatters stomachs are turning now..feelin lil sick even contemplating eattimng theyre freinds & families..
but now ya just know how we feel whenever we have to endure watching ya eat a hamburger

 

I often wonder about that. What justifies the consumption of certain meat and not other?

There are some unfathomable dishes out there. There are people TODAY who cook aborted human babies and eat them. They find them to be a great delicacy. And in some countries they sell brains of prisoners as food. I found them to be disturbing, but then again why is it only shocking when people eat people? Or "exotic" animals? What makes one life more valuable than another?

Speaking of valuing life...

Last Saturday I was at a farm feeding watermelon and cantalope to two very sweet and adorable pigs. I wanted to take them home and make them my own. Anyway, the next day I went to the LA County Fair and what do I see? One of the food stands was roasting a WHOLE pig. I, not expecting to see that, just gasped and wanted to cry. I wonder if people would do that to their own dogs? Of course not. So why would they do that to pigs, who are known to be as smart as (if not smarter than) dogs?

 

Cannabalism exists/existed in many cultures for different reasons. Some of them are purely religious/ritualistic and others like the cannibalistic tribes of New Guinea, eat human meat because they think it tastes really good. It is only the differences in culture that defines what is acceptable and what is not. Just look at the practice of eating insects in different cultures.

Some human eating aliens told me that free range humans, organically fed are supposed to taste best. The city raised humans with all the drugs and hormones, fed on junk food, taste the worst.

 

Mmm hmm! I keep hearing people get all yukked up thinking about eating guinea pigs. Well yeah we keep them as pets here, but ounce per ounce they are FAR more economical & environmentally sound than chickens, cows, piggies... take your pick!

Now bugs. THAT'S the way to REALLY go if you want "animal" protein
love,
mom

 

sounds like most Americans....so are you trying to link really fat people to being more prone to cannibalism?

 

^^^nonono. the other way round: because they were cannibals, they might be fat because of that, but :this is not my personal idea, it's just a suggestion that the writer of the book i read, had:>> BECAUSE they had been cannibals, and were kind of forced to stop these eating habits, they shifted to other kind of meat. they simply have a huge CRAVING for it!. and meat, in combination with taro etc, makes you very fat.
the thing is: these are islands, and before they were cannibals they were the best navigators (on canoe) on the planet. what does it mean? that they used to be FISHERMEN and eat fish and live of the sea. today, they've become LAZY, and they are not so many fishermen left (at some places, none at all), they dont like the sea, don't swim in it, and, in many places, they actually, when they want to eat fish, will eat CANNED fish!

 

that's something worth quoting
lovely

 

I think most people given the choice between death from starvation or cannibalism, would chose cannibalism. People will do just about anything not to die. There are tons of historical cases where this has happened, even in recent times.

 

cannibalism has also been known to be common in certain parts of africa.