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Cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom - so why is it the ultimate taboo for humans?
Newsweek ^ | August 20, 2019 | Jared Piazza

Posted on 08/22/2019 11:35:43 AM PDT by Trump20162020

Vulnerable spadefoot tadpoles eat their smaller competitors to speed towards toadhood as quickly as possible. Gulls and pelicans are among bird species that eat hatchlings for food or to prevent the spread of disease. In insect species such as the praying mantis or the Australian redback spider, males offer their bodies as a final gift to females after mating.

It's more common than you'd think in mammals too. Many rodent mothers may eat some of their young if they're sick, dead, or too numerous to feed. Bears and lions kill and eat the offspring of adult females to make them more receptive to mating. Chimpanzees sometimes cannibalize unlucky rivals, usually infants, seemingly for the mere opportunity of some extra protein.

For humans though, cannibalism is the ultimate taboo. In fact, our aversion to cannibalism is so strong that consent and ethics count for little.

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TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; cannibalism; cjd; creutzfeldtjakob; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; infanticide; medicareforall; obamacare; prions; soylentgreen; stupid
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To: Trump20162020
"People: The other white meat."

"Try it. You'll like it."

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61 posted on 08/22/2019 1:06:00 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: JimRed

I guess it tastes like Spam....uh, a friend told me that.
I don’t go hunting with this particular friend.


62 posted on 08/22/2019 1:08:51 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Trump20162020

How long before Planned Parenthood comes out with a cookbook?


63 posted on 08/22/2019 1:11:14 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: Trump20162020
Whales gang rape to reproduce and mothers of some species eat their young. Does this idiot think humans should be allowed to do that, too?

I never thought cannibalism would be next up to be normalized after homosexuality and transgenderism.

64 posted on 08/22/2019 1:26:28 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Trump20162020
"Cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom - so why is it the ultimate taboo for humans?"

It isn't the ultimate taboo. Not even close. AFAIK cannibalism has been perfectly acceptable since FOREVER provided it was done as a last resort to avert starvation and you weren't intentionally killing anyone in order to eat them. If it were truly taboo, it wouldn't be acceptable ... ever!

The only reason cannibalism was outlawed among the natives of Papua New Guinea (who ritually ate the brains of their departed relatives as a sign of respect) was because it transmitted a brain-borne disease (called 'kuru') that could not be transmitted any other way.

65 posted on 08/22/2019 1:27:49 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Trump20162020
usually infants,

Planned Parenthood. The left's version of Chick-Fil-A.

66 posted on 08/22/2019 1:30:05 PM PDT by dragonblustar (I love reading Trump tweets in the morning.)
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To: Trump20162020

Asking these types of obvious insane questions is how socialists now use the hegelian dialectic.


67 posted on 08/22/2019 1:38:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: right way right

But that’s not brain food!


68 posted on 08/22/2019 1:38:32 PM PDT by joegoeny ("Nuts!")
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To: Trump20162020

Because we’re not animals.

I’ll point out another thing: No animals acting to the extreme end of animalisim could have brought the AIDS virus to its present level of deadlyness anywhere near as fast as humans have...


69 posted on 08/22/2019 1:41:26 PM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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To: sarge83

mao told the perople to “eat the enemies of the state”...they did....at least 30 million of them....during one child policy heads of the communes would come for “baby soup”...when an extra baby was born.....so...the chins are aclimated to this....and ......the “progressives” want U.S. to aclimate too......


70 posted on 08/22/2019 1:48:38 PM PDT by Therapsid (eagan)
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To: Trump20162020

The left is absolutely insane. Is this like having cake and eat it too as in Pedos can have their children and eat them?


71 posted on 08/22/2019 1:58:21 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Steely Tom

Yep. Since cannibalism is mainly in non-white tribes, leftists will claim that white men are suppressing their culture.


72 posted on 08/22/2019 2:06:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: Trump20162020

If you have to ask, I can’t explain it to you....


73 posted on 08/22/2019 2:15:52 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Trump20162020

Demonicrats are pro-Soylent Green now? Only thing keeping them from herding Deplorables into Soylent Green plants is worry you can catch MAGA from them.


74 posted on 08/22/2019 2:20:53 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: cuban leaf
And fava beans thut, thut, thut, thut
75 posted on 08/22/2019 2:42:47 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: OldMissileer

Yum!
Food for the people, by the people.

https://www.cafepress.com/mf/15673498/soylent-green-people-ash-grey_tshirt?productId=307370869


76 posted on 08/22/2019 2:45:53 PM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Trump20162020

90% will resort to cannibalism after 15 days without food...


77 posted on 08/22/2019 2:47:41 PM PDT by northislander
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To: Karma_Sherab

“You can look at Antifa and the current crop of snowflakes and still come to that conclusion?”

But then I’m too nauseated to eat anything.


78 posted on 08/22/2019 2:52:59 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: Steely Tom; jmaroneps37
Articles like this are, I am convinced, usually a bit of preparatory psyops to get us ready for the Next Big Thing.

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79 posted on 08/22/2019 2:54:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Some things are so obviously depraved that only an ethicist could approve of them.)
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To: right way right

“Maybe we should start eating people from Nooseweak first?
Then CNN, NYT etc, etc....

Works for me.”

Anderson Cooper has been eating men for years.


80 posted on 08/22/2019 2:56:18 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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