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Newsweek: Time to Rethink Taboo on Cannibalism?
breitbart.com ^ | August 22, 2019 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

Posted on 08/24/2019 5:01:24 PM PDT by ransomnote

Since cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom and therefore is something natural, perhaps it is time for humans to rethink the “ultimate taboo” against eating human flesh, Newsweek proposes in an article Wednesday.

There is nothing necessarily unethical or unreasonable about eating human flesh, declare psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University, but careful reasoning over the merits of cannibalism is often “overridden by our feelings of repulsion and disgust.”

While not going so far as to recommend cannibalism, saying “there is no need to overcome our repulsion for the foreseeable future,” the two authors suggest that humans could master their aversion for human flesh if they needed to.

“Many people develop disgust for all kinds of meat, while morticians and surgeons quickly adapt to the initially difficult experience of handling dead bodies,” they note. “Our ongoing research with butchers in England suggests that they easily adapt to working with animal parts that the average consumer finds quite disgusting.”

Moreover, the psychological revulsion experienced over the prospect of consuming human flesh is not the product of reason and may even contradict reason, they argue in Wednesday’s article, which originally appeared last week in The Conversation.

“Survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash waited until near starvation before succumbing to reason and eating those who had already died,” they propose.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: IronJack

Well in the Pacific Islands the tradition was to eat one’s enemies. But they made one huge mistake. You should never eat the liver of a predator, because that’s where all the poisons are stored, but that’s exactly what they would do, eat the liver. Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa


81 posted on 08/24/2019 5:59:39 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: ransomnote

82 posted on 08/24/2019 6:03:43 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: familyop

Hahahahaha... I am going to lunch with some family morrow. I am so booking it under Donner.


83 posted on 08/24/2019 6:07:47 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: IronJack

I wrote a paper on A Modest Proposal in High School.


84 posted on 08/24/2019 6:08:50 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ransomnote

Buffet at Newsweak!


85 posted on 08/24/2019 6:12:01 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ransomnote

Just a hunch - These guys are vegans trying to make people think about their need to eat meat.


86 posted on 08/24/2019 6:12:20 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Donner!
Donner,
Party of Eight!


87 posted on 08/24/2019 6:13:21 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: BipolarBob

Anyone have any good recipes?......


88 posted on 08/24/2019 6:13:33 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Mark17

Days of Noah?

Didn’t the Titans eat people by the thousands when they ran out of food being produced for them? I vaguely remember the Book of Enoch stating such.


89 posted on 08/24/2019 6:13:51 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: ransomnote
I can think of one little issue offhand - a communicable, incurable, invariably fatal condition named Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, aka Kuru in New Guinea. Other than that, hey, chow down, don't wait for me. Spleen in a hot dog bun, yum! I think I'll have a salad...
90 posted on 08/24/2019 6:14:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ransomnote

My husband used to tell me, when we were discussing ‘apocalypse’, that if I were desperate, his gluteus maximus and top of thigh would be the tenderest and tastiest.

Now that he’s learned to butcher and cook meat, he’s talking about ‘hocks’ and other parts; marinades; lots of black pepper to cut the sweetness; studding with garlic, and ‘browned butter finish’.....and maybe some rosemary (fresh, not dried.)


91 posted on 08/24/2019 6:19:23 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Billthedrill

I believe the Mad Cow variant is caused by eating brain tissue.


92 posted on 08/24/2019 6:20:57 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ransomnote
Screenshot_2019-08-24 Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 06, 2013 GoComics com
93 posted on 08/24/2019 6:24:37 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: ransomnote
Silence of the Liberals


94 posted on 08/24/2019 6:34:27 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: ransomnote

They maybe know the tribulation is coming soon and don’t want to get arrested when they dine on their neighbors after the food runs out?


95 posted on 08/24/2019 6:36:49 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ransomnote

These people are insane.


96 posted on 08/24/2019 6:39:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: no-to-illegals

97 posted on 08/24/2019 6:44:54 PM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I put up a sign in the company break room that said “Alferd Packer Memorial Break Room”.

It stayed up for nearly a year before someone caught on...


98 posted on 08/24/2019 6:50:05 PM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: TomGuy

Only liberals could come up with something like this.

They are sick SOB’s.


99 posted on 08/24/2019 6:55:42 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: ransomnote

I guess the push for eating bugs didn’t work so now it’s on to long pig.


100 posted on 08/24/2019 7:05:10 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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