No matter how you cut it up, eating people is simply wrong -

The Telegraph - UK ^ | December 8, 2003 | Barbara Amiel

[katz]

Oh, by the way, this group 'Toto Coelo' who sang I Eat Cannibals was from the UK!

[Quix]

True.

Though, I'm convinced that in our lifetime, due to great famine, people in the good old US OF A

will eat their friends and relatives who have died.

Some will wait for them to die so they can eat them.

Some will hasten the dying.

The times are a changin'

folks.

[Stop Legal Plunder]

It's nice to know that there are moral judgments that even self styled 'extreme' libertarians will make. This confirms my belief that deep inside every libertarian is a conservative waiting to get out. It's just a matter of where you draw the line. And once you start drawing lines, you aren't a libertarian--at least not in a consistent or pure sense.

Worth repeating.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

A song which we call, "The Reluctant Cannibal":
	Seated one day at the tom-tom,
	I heard a welcome shout from the kitchen:
	"COME AND GEEEEEEEEEEET IT!"
	Roast leg of insurance salesman!
	A chorus of "yum"s ran round the table:
	(Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum...)
	Except for Junior, who pushed away his shell,
	Got up from his log, and said:
Swann:	"I don't want any part of it!"
Flanders:	What? Why not?
Swann:	I don't eat people.
Flanders:	Hey?
Swann:	I won't eat people.
Flanders:	Huh?
Swann:	I don't eat people.
Flanders:	I must be going deaf!
Swann:	Eating people is wrong.
Flanders:	It's wrong?
Swann:	Don't eat people.
Flanders:	Have you gone clean out of your mind?
Swann:	I won't eat people.
Flanders:	What's the matter with the lad?
Swann:	Don't eat people.
Flanders:	He keeps on repeating.
Both:	Eating people is bad.
Flanders:	But people have always eaten people,
	What else is there to eat?
	If the Juju had meant us not to eat people,
	He wouldn't have made us of meat!
Swann:	Don't eat people.
Flanders:	Oh no, not again.
Swann:	I won't eat people.
Flanders:	All the day long.
Both:	Don't eat people.
Flanders:	He keeps on repeating.
Both:	Eating people is wrong.
Flanders:	Well... I... I never heard a more ridiculous idea in all my born days. To think that a son of mine should grow up to be a sissy - me, chief assistant to the assistant chief! I suppose you realise, son, if this was to get around, we might never get self-Government.
Swann:	I won't eat people!
Flanders:	Have you been talking to one of your mothers again? You're not getting to be one of these cranks who think that eating people is cruel, are you? Seeing the man sitting in the pot and you think he's suffering. Oh, it's not like that at all. Why, he's just had an invigourating chase through the forest, sitting there in the nice warm water with all the carrots and dumplings and things, he's thinking, "Oh, the pleasure and happiness I'm going to give to a heap of people". That man in the pot there, he enjoys it!
Swann:	Eating people is wrong!
Flanders:	Look son, son, I admire your sincerity. Always be sincere... whether you mean it or not. But you're young, you're young, when you're young you think you can change the whole world overnight, even eating people - I know, I've been young myself. Take it from your old Dad, you've just got to learnt to take the world as it is.
Swann:	I won't let another man pass my lips!
Flanders:	I know why you say "Don't eat people", because you are a coward, Francis, that's your trouble. Yes, a yellow-livered coward. You wouldn't mind eating people if you weren't afraid of ending up in the pot yourself - how despicable! If you go on like this you're liable to get ME into hot water.
Swann:	I won't eat people.
Flanders:	That's enough!
Swann:	I don't eat people.
Flanders:	I don't want to...
Swann:	Eating people is wrong!
Flanders:	Communist!
Flanders:	Going around saying "Don't eat people",
	That's the way to make people hate'ya.
	We always have eaten people, always will eat people,
	You can't change human nature.
Flanders:	Now let's try...
Swann:	I won't eat people,
	I don't eat people,
	I won't eat people,
	I don't eat people!
Flanders:	Must have been someone he ate!
Swann:	Eating people is out!
Flanders:	I give up, I give up, you used to be a regular anthrophagi. If this crazy idealistic idea of yours was to catch on, I just dunno where we would all be. Just about ruin our entire internal economy. Fortunately, I suppose it's catching on isn't really very likely - why, you might just as well going around saying "Don't fight people", for example...
Swann:	Don't fight people? Ha, ha! Don't fight people?! Ha ha ha!
Flanders:	There, imagine? There, you see! All part of the same...
Both:	(laughing) ... fantastical impossibility!
Flanders:	That's the boy!
Both:	RIDICULOUS!

[ChemistCat]

Anybody read STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND? Of course you have. You just blanked out the traumatic parts about cannibalism.

--

It was about a century ago, I understand, that children were sold as meat in the village markets of China.

--

I'm saying "protein is protein," when I can't bring myself to eat rabbit, elk, or venison, but supposedly, when one is hungry enough, protein IS protein. Ask the survivors of that plane crash in the Andes, who were hanging strips of deceased companions in the sun to dry. I think only one person starved rather than eat the dead...and she, herself, of course, was eaten.

--

May I never be that hungry!

[Quix]

Cute. Thanks/

[stands2reason]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[ppaul]

perversion ping.

[stands2reason]

Just DAMN! and I mean DAMN!!! ping

[UnklGene]

Thanks, R.B..

[Indie]

I guess I don't understand the British sense of humor.

[dalereed]

"No matter how you cut it up, eating people is simply wrong"

What if he just bit off large hunks, no cutting, does that qualify?

[The Great RJ]

But wouldn't the recent Supreme Court decision on sodomy also apply--if the parties both agree then who is the state to interfere in their privacy.

[Reaganesque]

LOL!! I haven't heard that song in years! Flanders and Swann are/were a scream. This song contains one of my favorite quotes of all time and one that constantly came to mind during the Clinton years: "Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not." Great stuff. Do you have the words to the Hippopotamus song? (Many think this song is irrelevant. But it is not irrelevant, its a hippopotamus!) ;-)

[qam1]

Christianity doesn't remotely justify cannibalism,

Never read Zechariah chapter 11 or Leviticus chapter 26 I see

[MHGinTN]

Justify cannibalism?... Hah! Amereica is begging for it! Some in this 'enlightened' culture have concluded that if the fellow humans are young enough and their body parts utilitarian enough, just do it, cure disease and injury with the body parts that may be created and harvested.

[Reaganesque]

How about this Monty Python sketch:

The Lifeboat Sketch

(Scene: A lifeboat on the open sea. Seagulls are crying.)

(groans and coughs)

1: Still no sign of land. How long is it?

2: That's a rather personal question, sir. (low voices)

1: You stupid git. I meant how long is it that we've been in the lifeboat? You've destroyed the atmosphere now.

2: Sorry.

1: Shut up. Start again.

(dramatic pause)

1: Still no sign of land. How long is it?

2: 33 days, sir.

1: Thirty-three days?!

2: We can't go on much longer. (low voices) I didn't think I destroyed the atmosphere.

1: Shut up.

2: Well, I don't think I did.

1: 'Course you did.

2: (aside, to 3) Did you think I destroyed the atmosphere?

3: Yes I think you did.

1: Shut up. Shut up!

(dramatic pause)

1: Still no sign of land. How long is it?

2: 33 days, sir.

4: Have we started again? [slap]

(dramatic pause)

1: STILL no sign of land. How long is it?

2: 33 days, sir.

1: Thirty-three days?!

2: We can't go on much longer, sir. We haven't eaten since the fifth day.

5: We're done for, we're done for!

1: Shut up, Maudlin.

2: We've just got to keep hoping. Someone may find us.

6: How we feeling, Captain?

C: Not too good. I...I feel so weak.

2: We can't hold out much longer.

C: Listen...chaps...there's still a chance. I'm...done for, I've...got a gammy leg and I'm going fast; I'll never get through. But...some of you might. So...you'd better eat me.

2: Eat you, sir?

C: Yes. Eat me.

2: Ewww! With a gammy leg?

C: You don't have to eat the leg, Thompson. There's still plenty of good meat. Look at that arm.

5: It's not just the leg, sir.

C: What do you mean?

5: Well, sir...it's just that -

C: Why don't you want to eat me?

5: I'd rather eat Johnson, sir!

6: So would I, sir.

C: I see.

J: Then that's decided...everyone's gonna eat me!

1: Uh, well.

5: What, sir?

1: Go ahead, please, but I won't -

J: Oh nonsense, sir, you're starving; tuck in!

1: No, no, it's not that.

6: What's the matter with Johnson, sir?

1: Well, he's not kosher.

5: That depends how we kill him, sir.

1: Yes, that's true. But to be perfectly frank I...I like my meat a little more lean. I'd rather eat Hodges.

H: Oh well, all right.

5: I still prefer Johnson.

C: I wish you'd all stop bickering and eat me.

1: Look. I tell you what. Those who want to can eat Johnson. And you, sir, can have my leg. And we make some stock from the Captain, and then we'll have Johnson cold for supper.

Crew: (cacophonous) Hmm, yes, good idea, excellent thinking, very good, I don't suppose we could have Hodges in the morning, jolly good idea, etc.

[FreedomCalls]

What may be an EU speciality is that apparently cannibalism is not a crime

Cannibalism is not a crime in the modern, progressive, enlightened, and liberal Germany. But killing ants is.

Germans banned from killing ants

Germany has introduced new laws making it illegal to kill ants and appointed 85 ant protection officers to protect the insects.

Homeowners and gardeners who attempt to destroy an anthill or underground nest will face hefty fines if caught.

They must now apply for a permit from their local forestry office to have the ants carefully moved to local woods.

"People with an ant hill in their garden must under no circumstances resort to the use of poison," said senior ant protection officer Dieter Kraemer.

"This is a violation of federal nature protection laws and punishable with hefty fines."

He added that ants were highly valued by German foresters for eating insects which attack trees.

A high ant population can prevent costly and environmentally unfriendly woodland spraying aimed at pests such as the Nun moth which attacks pines and other conifers.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Why don't cannibals eat clowns?


They taste funny.

[ladyinred]

Justify cannibalism?... Hah! Amereica is begging for it! Some in this 'enlightened' culture have concluded that if the fellow humans are young enough and their body parts utilitarian enough, just do it, cure disease and injury with the body parts that may be created and harvested.

.Oh my, sad but true.