Cannibalism to save the world? New Scientist opens that door…

Cannibalism, New Scientist

By Jo Nova

Next step: sustainable human steak?

They don’t mention the “sustainable” word, but you know they want to. Right from the start they’re selling it to us:

Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can’t it be left to feed the hungry?

Why can’t we feed our bodies to the homeless indeed, apart from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,  prions, parasites, heavy metals? And if  cannibalism pops up on the menu often enough, who knows what other problem will pop up on the radar? Things at the top of the food chain (and we are at the top) tend to accumulate all kinds of unwanted chemicals, like lead, PCBs, and pollutants.

Not to mention the spiritual questions and the mental health issues. Who knows? Relatives might feel a bit miffed if Aunty Betty was carved up for canapes and offered up to the crowd at the local alcoholics shelter.

Welcome to dystopia. We can devalue human lives, but think of the cows we’ll save!

And the CultureWar continues

Tut. Tut. Tut. New Scientist gently chides us for being the sort of modern prejudiced people who think cannibalism is taboo. Its just your colonial roots that do that to you, right?

If you don’t like cannibals you are just a racist:

Our aversion has been explained in various ways. Perhaps it is down to the fact that, in Western religious traditions, bodies are seen as the seat of the soul and have a whiff of the sacred. Or maybe it is culturally ingrained, with roots in early modern colonialism, when racist stereotypes of the cannibal were concocted to justify subjugation. These came to represent the “other” to Western societies – and revulsion towards cannibalism became a tenet of their moral conscience.

Once human bodies are reduced to being meat to feed the poor, euthanasia is almost a gift to the world, really. And science is just, well, one of many ideologies, not something special.

The New Scientist output is just another article chipping away at the pillars of Western Civilization. The fact they don’t even consider pollutants and diseases, nor the soul sapping mental health issues is just embarrassing for a supposedly “scientific” magazine.

For whatever its worth, after half a billion years of evolution, predators almost never eat other predators, and most species don’t eat their own kind. Perhaps there is a reason…
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146 comments to Cannibalism to save the world? New Scientist opens that door…

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    pcb Steve

    Soylent Green was supposed to be a horro movie, not a how to documnetary.
    Originality is not the lefts strong suit.

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      Jonesy

      I fear worse than this. The powers that be haven’t thought through this very well. We call it CJD in cows. Goes by Kuru in humans

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        Ted1.

        I haven’t read it and I won’t!

        I remember when the kids were in high school 30 odd years ago their reading included cnnibalism. From the backblocks I thought it impossible to protest. I should have tried harder.

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      Steve4192

      I will eat long pork before I eat ze bugs.

      And I’ll do my shopping at Davos.

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        Steve

        Corn fed billionaire with a nice chablis, hmmm!

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          David Maddison

          They taste better with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

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            Saighdear

            Aw Nooooooh! Best place for that is the BIN ! A nice Angus steak, or a large Bowl of Dressed Salad alone, even on a hot day would be just perfect, with a fruit salad afterwards.

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        Paul Campbell

        I think you have accidentally stumbled upon the “plan” which I see as progressing as follows.
        We all know that soylent green is currently unacceptable.
        People in the west will not generally consume insects.
        Processed insect protein will be introduced alongside quorn,cheaper, but not popular.
        Starvation can be used to encourage consumption of insects for survival.
        Government hostility towards farming is widespread (particularly EU), and will lead to food shortages.
        The insect protein will be introduced to a starving population as a meat substitute.
        Agricultural waste to feed the insects is in short supply. People are starving.
        Cadavers are used to feed the insects. Hungry people demand more food.
        Cadavers are processed more directly into a premium protein food – soylent green.

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      FrankH

      And Jonathan Swift published his “Modest Proposal” some 300 years ago. That wasn’t meant to be a blueprint either.

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    mareeS

    I was waiting for this. It was inevitable.. Atlas Shrugged.

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    Stephen McDonald

    Learn from the stone age culture?
    Sacrifice little virgin girls to the gods in exchange for good weather?

    They are already sacrificing the lives of millions by denying them affordable reliable electricity when it is there for the using.

    Nuclear.

    The only reason for the gullible warming fraud is to wipe out the middle class through inflicted poverty.

    It has never for one minute been about weather or climate.

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      Steve4192

      The watermelon left is all about ‘indigenous knowledge’.

      Modernity is a sin against nature, and we need to return to the ways of the ‘noble savage’, when life expectancies were in their 20s, infant mortality approached 50%, and childbirth was one of the most common causes of death for women.

      But heaven forefend that some reactionary MAGA deplorable should go out hunting with his son and kill his food like a not-so-noble savage, and maybe even pass down some hunting tradition by blooding the boy and having him take a bite out of the still steaming heart.

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    Kalm Keith

    The cycle of life is that we are born, looked after by our parents, put to work to learn the skills that helped our group survive and then reproduce and repeat.

    When the United Bludy Nations decrees from on high, cue Julie, that our group should send food and trinkets to starving groups around the globe then it must be seen that they are interfering with nature.

    Leave nature alone.

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    Neville

    You would have to think that these donkeys were on a steady diet of stupid pills and before too long little kids could be taught this lunacy at school.
    I’m sure that cannibalism was part of the early Human experience and development but we have more food today than at any time in our history and we don’t need to eat other dead Humans now or in the foreseeable future.

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      Bushkid

      We only have enough food until governments, obeying the diktats of the WEF/UN, destroy our capability to produce food.

      They’re already working on it around the world. Objections to the destruction are happening, but are deliberately not reported, so the average person has no idea.

      Similarly with electricity and petroleum.

      Slow strangulation of production and deliberate increases in price of fuel will do it, are doing it.

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    TdeF

    The author of this drivel and friends should immediately donate themselves to feed the people of Gaza. With the right spices of course. Combine compassion with cuisine. If only to increase average world intelligence.

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      Saighdear

      .. and WHY feed our bodies to the homeless ? … surely it should be the hungry .. ( if at all – NOT) IMHO

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    Penguinite

    Stone age be lowed! The Maoris et al were “long pig” imbibers when Capt arrived!

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      Penguinite

      B to beblowed lost in transit!

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      PeterPetrum

      It is also well documented that our own aboriginals also practiced cannibalism. The women, who routinely had a child each year or shorter, could not suckle or cary more than two. The third was either eaten at birth or buried alive. Both practices were observed by early settlers. It is also reported that the dead from warring tribes were also consumed.

      These facts, of course, will never appear in Albo’s “truth telling”. According to Bruce Pascoe they were all farmers and traded happily with each other, never a cross word.

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        Saighdear

        Aye, … and all lived happily ever after.
        WHY did “intelligent” chimps ( ie MAN) ever start fighting –> Killing other peoples? Who sowed THAT seed ? Like Religion .. something to kill over ?

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    Ian Rogers

    The Left always eat their own.

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    Honk R Smith

    I suggest only grass fed organic.
    Which I guess means vegans will become quite valuable per pound.
    Plus easier to catch and herd.

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    David Maddison

    I think the conquistadors rejecting and banning the brutal human sacrifice and cannibalism of Inca and Aztec societies to appease the climate gods (or for any other purpose) was and is utterly valid.

    Of course the Left will say that these savage practises should never have been interefered with and South and Central American natives should have been left to their ways. Colonialism by white people was always bad according to the Left, indigenous people led idyllic lives according to them.

    Now the Left are breaking down this ultimate taboo by advocating the eating of dead people, also to appease the climate gods. Fortunately, they are not yet being killed to purpose – but that will no doubt come.

    It’s nothing to the Left, they fundamentally don’t value human life anyway.

    Just look how “progressive” Canada strongly pushes euthanasia, often for the most trivial reasons, and it’s often offered as a medical treatment option.

    4.1% of all deaths in Canada are due to euthanasia and they are looking to expand that program…to the mentally ill (mmm… where have we seen that before??? It’s good they no longer teach real history…). Fortunately the introduction of that is temporarily delayed.

    The next step will be for “progressive” governments to say, “well, thank you for electing to kill yourself, that will certainly save emissions of greenhouse gases (sic) but can you please go the next step and offers your body for food. That will help Gaia even more…”.

    https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-postpones-plan-to-allow-euthanasia-for-mentally-ill-/7480548.html

    Canada Postpones Plan to Allow Euthanasia for Mentally Ill

    ALSO (from Wikipedia)

    Bernal Díaz’s The Conquest of New Spain (written by 1568, published 1632) contains several accounts of cannibalism among the people the conquistadors encountered during their warring expedition to Tenochtitlan.

    About the city of Cholula, Díaz wrote of his shock at seeing young men in cages ready to be sacrificed and eaten.

    In the same work Diaz mentions that the Cholulan and Aztec warriors were so confident of victory against the conquistadors in an upcoming battle the following day, that “…they wished to kill us and eat our flesh, and had already prepared the pots with salt and peppers and tomatoes”.

    About the Quetzalcoatl temple of Tenochtitlan Díaz wrote that inside there were large pots, where human flesh of sacrificed Natives was boiled and cooked to feed the priests.

    About the Mesoamerican towns in general Díaz wrote that some of the indigenous people he saw were:

    eating human meat, just like we take cows from the butcher’s shops, and they have in all towns thick wooden jail-houses, like cages, and in them they put many Indian men, women and boys to fatten, and being fattened they sacrificed and ate them.

    Díaz’s testimony is corroborated by other Spanish historians who wrote about the conquest. In History of Tlaxcala (written by 1585), Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1529 – 1599) states that:

    Thus there were public butcher’s shops of human flesh, as if it were of cow or sheep.

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      Lawrie

      There were reports of aboriginal babies being eaten when food was scarce. The babies were killed because they would be a drain on the rest of the tribe (Nation?) so in practical terms they could supply some nourishment as well.

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        TdeF

        Yes and in the days before contraception and in places without it, unwanted babies are left to starve. That doesn’t mean a lack of compassion, but a cruel necessity. Life is still very hard in many parts of the world and Sophie’s choice is still common.

        In our Western world what is never pointed out is that the population has doubled only because life expectancy has doubled. Populations are actually falling rapidly. Even with booming Africa as in Nigeria with Lagos set to top 100 million people, world population looks to be peaking at 9 billion and then rapidly dropping.

        But as in The Time Machine, the Eloi at the top of the food chain would rather the Morlocks ate each other. Besides the Morlocks cannot afford jet travel or electric cars, so they have to be culled. The hypocrisy at the top is amazing to see with billionaires with multiple jet planes, cars, yachts and homes lecturing the world on sustainability, Carbon dioxide and Climate Change.

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          TdeF

          I remember the Indian train driver who ran the IPCC for decades actually boasting that he flew about 360,000 km a year, or 1K per day. Telling people not to fly.

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        Lawrie

        Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter (1880–1931) said that he had found a rich gold bearing reef west of the McDonnell Ranges and had raised an expedition to find it.. He spent a prolonged period with an Aboriginal tribe and recorded what he saw. he was probably truthful but sometimes gave confusing facts about the reef so his other observations may be suspect too although the killing of babies among desert tribes has been recorded elsewhere.

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        David Maddison

        There were reports of aboriginal babies being eaten when food was scarce. 

        Yes.

        See link:

        https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/09/the-incidence-of-cannibalism-in-aboriginal-society/ 

        It’s all been written out of Australian history now, but it used to be common knowledge up until the 1950’s.

        It now doesn’t conform to the Official Narrative.

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          Dennis

          The book Cape York The Savage Frontier was banned by politicians long ago.

          One of the best records of migration using the via PNG route when the Gulf of Carpentaria was a lake, including pygmies and head hunters migrating.

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          I read a history of the Palmer River gold rush and the hostile indigenous tribes were being pushed out of traditional hunting grounds and according to accounts took a liking to the Chinese gold miners due to their sweeter taste.A diet high in rice allegedly enhanced the flavour.

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      TdeF

      I wonder about that. The invasion of Mexico and South America was brutal. Mass slaughter. But murder was a mortal sin, except in war.

      And religion was at the forefront. So in the crusades the Pope declared it was not a sin to kill Muslims. The crusades were similar, so a priest accompanied every expedition and his job was to declare the people cannibals. Then they were automatically subhuman and there was no injunction against mass murder.

      While these things happened in war and sacrifice to their Gods as happened in many societies, I doubt that it was common practice outside rituals and after a battle. But the Spanish and Portuguese accounts often reflect the practical needed to report the natives as sub human.

      Our own Captain Cook, an incredible hero who died doing his job was was killed in what he had named the Sandwich Islands after the eponymous Lord Sandwich, later Hawaii. So Cook ended up in the Sandwiches. But the natives later returned his bones with respect and apologized. No comment on whether he was delicious.

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        Steve4192

        To be fair, the Conquistadors didn’t conquer South America and Mexico by their lonesome. They partnered with local tribes that were oppressed by the dominant tribe. There were only 500 Conquistadors in the conquest of the Aztecs. The rest were local levies of thousands of warriors from other tribes that were tired of the Aztecs warring against them in order to steal their land, enslave their defeated warriors, and send their civilians to the pyramids to be sacrificed. The Conquistadors were viewed as liberators by their allies among the weaker tribes, who judged trading gold for freedom from the bloodthirsty Aztecs to be a bargain.

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          TdeF

          500 men does not sound like a lot but the Europeans had Toledo steel, a super weapon. And their opponents tried to subdue them with rubber mallets, to save them for human sacrifice.

          In the murder of the great Inca in Peru, executed without reason by Pizzaro and his men, it was a few dozen men with rapiers against thousands and before guns, steel swords were the gattling guns of the day and steel was unknown in South America. As were horses and steel armour and helmets. Very few South American tribes had bows and arrows, distance weapons. The combination gave Europeans a massive advantage in speed and killing power.

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            Steve4192

            The very concept of cavalry was something the natives had never even imagined, since the largest ungulates in the region were undomesticated llamas that couldn’t bear a human’s weight.

            The Aztecs thought they were the toughest thing in the world on two feet, and here come these armored Conquistadors on four-legged half-ton armored war horses riding them down like they were little more than speed bumps, and riders cutting them down like they were harvesting wheat. Trying to fight all that steel and horseflesh with nothing more than clubs must have been like meeting your Gods.

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              TdeF

              It was only a few years ago that archaeologists found skeletons of ancient horses in North America. It seems they were prolific, but also delicious and became extinct some tens of thousands of years ago, just like the megamarsupials in Australia. Even in Europe and Africa, learning to ride horses was a new thing, starting with the Scythians on the Russian Steppes.

              I could just see the Aztecs and Incas looking and thinking “so that’s what you do with them!”

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                TdeF

                And it makes you wonder about the ‘invasion’ of Australia. No armed force. No deployed troops. Nothing to steal, no houses, possessions, great wealth like gold or silver, no crops, no slaves, no animals and certainly no trained workforce. The picture that Australia was invaded and conquered and enslaved, ‘colonized’ is just ridiculous. Even providing houses for aboriginals led to many failed projects. Would be employees randomly went walkabout.

                The progressive story of violent invasion and exploitation, robbery, enslavement is beyond ridiculous. Rather it has been a continual story of trying to help a pre stone age people adapt to a world which left them far behind. And with very little gratitude.

                As for cannibalism, Australia had so much food for so few people in a warm country, any cannibalism which occurred would have been ritual for the top predator with no rival. Which is one of the reason aborigines did not develop at all. Their only enemy was other aborigines. And of course a complete lack of TV and beer, as explained by Homer Simpson.

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                el+gordo

                Australia was designed as a prison colony after America had their war of independence.

                Joseph Banks told the Admiralty that the Australians were docile, unlike the mob across the gap. So the troops were there mainly to keep an eye on the inmates.

                As time went by the natives did become restless and so they decided on a weapon of mass destruction, a pandemic was released at Manly and it spread rapidly.

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            Old Goat

            TdeF,
            They had guns too . The terror weapons of that time – magic bang sticks…

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      John Michelmore

      The subject matter here prompted me to get the book “Anthropophagitism in the Antipodes” or Cannibalism in Australia, written by James Cooke R.N. Rtd. in 1997, off of the bookshelf. This book documents reported aboriginal cannibalism in Australia up to the 1950’s and beyond.
      A quotation from page 245 stood out: –
      “Cultural Human cannibalism is today” (1997) “behind the planned collapse of world development. The planned destruction of four fifths of humanity through economic pressure on our life-styles along with subliminally seductive programs of family planning, producing increasing millions of abortions, broken families and suicides. Birth-control is leading to a large non-productive old population (the useless eaters). Euthanasia is being put in place as a cure for the coming problems of an aged population.
      Cultural Human cannibalism is behind, at the deepest levels, the push to lock people’s perceptions of mathematics and physics as singular and linear thereby inducing them to think only at the shallowest level of ignorant conscious logic. Locked to this mode of thinking people will accept with minimum objection the most pernicious and special frauds such as; the greenhouse gas scam, the World Bank Fraud, money fraud in general and not the end or least, Democracy fraud. The U.N.E.S.C.O. designed and enforced world education system of John Dewey et.al. has produced a world of people who can operate only on ignorant logic, they have the greatest difficulty in perceiving the frauds.”
      The final chapter from which this quote is taken was provided to James Cooke by a contribution from ‘Mariusz’.

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    Bruce

    Soylent Green?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ

    Also, remember that “To Serve Men” is a COOKBOOK!

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      David Maddison

      Soylent Green was made in 1973 and was quite prophetic.

      Are we there yet?

      https://medium.com/narrative/soylent-green-a-scary-film-about-2022-made-50-years-ago-are-we-there-yet-8035200c1a1f

      New York City in the Year 2022 — Nothing runs anymore, nothing works, but the people are the same. People will do anything to get what they need. What they need most is Soylent Green.

      The opening credits show the rapid growth of the 20th century culminating with young people wearing surgical masks. The most memorable line? When Heston, playing Detective Thorn, reveals, “Soylent Green is people.”

      Greenhouse gases where “everything is burning up” make summer last all year long, creating massive supply shortages. What’s the answer?

      “Do you know how many books were published in this country once upon a time?” the legendary Edward G. Robinson, then age 79, asks in his final role.

      He’s become the last librarian, the researcher who helps the brave detective unravel the mystery by helping find the facts and the truth. “I was a teacher once, a full professor, a respected man.”

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        CO2 Lover

        Also Logan’s Run

        Logan’s Run is a 1976 American science fiction action film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, and Peter Ustinov. The screenplay by David Zelag Goodman is based on the 1967 novel Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a utopian future society on the surface, revealed as a dystopia where the population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of 30.

        What to do with the “Prime Veal Tasting” body parts?

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    Plain Jane

    The point that the article ridiculously skirts around is that of killing people to eat. Cannibalism involves the eaten person being dead, by the end of the process anyway. Eating someone that died naturally of illness or disease is not historically what cannibals did, at least in the majority of cases. It is not what we do with animals for food, we don’t wait until they die naturally in the paddock then go and pick up the bits. We kill them to eat and dress them immediately because it is hygenic. So the article should address the killing of people for food. I dont think the colonials were morally revulsed by cannibals for eating aunty when she died, but for killing auntie so they could eat her.

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    TdeF

    Why only white people in the picture? Are white people the chicken of the cannibal world? It’s racist. What happened to DEI?

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      David Maddison

      It wouldn’t be politically correct to suggest that historically it was mostly non-white people who practiced cannibalism. Maybe that was an AI generated image from Goolag Gemini.

      Those who practiced cannibalism included:

      Māori
      New Guinea natives
      Congolese
      Fijians
      Aztecs
      Natives of the Iroquoian Nation
      Khmer Rouge (modern)
      Liberia (modern)
      Congolese rebels (modern)

      Occasional accounts of Australian Aborigines (see https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/09/the-incidence-of-cannibalism-in-aboriginal-society/ )

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        CO2 Lover

        mostly non-white people who practiced cannibalism

        The Milwaukee Cannibal

        Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. [snip. LVA]

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          David Maddison

          Yes, there are, of course, isolated instances of cannibalism among criminals and the criminally insane in Western society.

          However, it’s not the culture of which that person is a member that practices or condones such behaviour or makes it legal. Cannibals in the West go to jail if tried before a non-woke judge.

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        Graham Richards

        How about a bit of “ truth telling “ following on from the Quadrant revelations.

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        TdeF

        In many ways the cannibalism of islanders is more understandable. When the Pacific Islanders arrived, the islands were barren with no life at all. 90% of all vegetation in the Pacific was brought on the catamarans, canoe goods. Plants for food and medicine and fragrance. And of course apart from fish, these were places with no animals so no meat. But all the recipes they knew in Eastern Taiwan required meat. It gives new meaning to Take Away Food.

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        Dennis

        It does explain why Australians who claim to have Indigenous ancestry, at least in part, are so badly off these days because of colonisation.

        sarc.

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    Kalm Keith

    There’s an old report that Australian cannibals up north found one particular race to be very salty. Not sure if it was the British or Asians.

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      David Maddison

      See https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/09/the-incidence-of-cannibalism-in-aboriginal-society/

      The Aborigines deemed Chinese settlers to be tastier than Europeans, less salty.

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        Yes and I remember reading a book about the Gold Mining around the Palmer river in Queensland in the 1800s. The local natives much preferred eating the Chinese workers rather than the Europeans. So, a Chinese takeaway was on the Menu even then.

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          Rusty of Qld

          Johnny, my grandfather,yes my grandfather born 1868, was on the Palmer river gold fields. He said as long as Chinese were on the diggings every body else was reasonably safe.

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            Amazing times I bet. Tough people.

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              Rusty of Qld

              Johhny, yes he experienced amazing times. He left the palmer and went chasing gold in Kalgoorlie, crossed the Nullarbor with Afghan camel drivers. Jo I have his 1896 miners licence from Kalgoorlie, its printed on linen as paper would not have lasted very long in a miners pocket. Went back home in 1898, got married and settled down but he still had a touch of the “Gold Fever” in him. My grand kids show very little interest in the old stories, too much social media distraction. sic transit gloria mundi.

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        Dennis

        Also described in the book Cape York The Savage Frontier.

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      Len

      The whites generally were putting excess salt on their meals. Recently the health people have told people to lay of the salt. Some were just going on sprinkling abnormal amounts of salt on their meals. Hence the salty taste.
      The Chinese miners ate a lot of rice which didn’t have the salt content.
      Once off the salt, it tastes terrible

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    John

    Gives a whole new meaning to the expressions like
    – Can you give me hand?
    – I don’t think their heart was in it
    – No guts, no glory!

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    CO2 Lover

    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.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/05/human-meat-taste-cannibal#

    I will post some recipies for wiener schnitzel – one of my favourites.

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    CO2 Lover

    Society of the Snow

    1972. “The tale is not for the faint of heart: For those not familiar with the story, ‘Society of the Snow’ involves graphic depictions of the accident and what the victims had to do to keep from starving to death, including cannibalism,” said Netflix about the film.

    What would you do in this situation?

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/01/05/society-of-the-snow-flight-571-what-to-know-about/72122898007/

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      David Maddison

      Eating already-dead people in extreme survival situations where people are already starving is quite different than routinely offering dead people as food when there is no survival imperative whatsoever.

      The first case honours and respects human life. The second does not.

      Few people would have any moral issues eating already-dead people in extreme survival situations when the alternative was for the survivors to also die.

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        David Maddison

        Incidentally, it’s now possible to avoid such situations altogether. Everyone who travels should carry an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) or Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) if it’s possible they might come to grief in a remote area. You can now get extremely small ones, about the size of a smallish tape measure.

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        Bruce

        Eating the already demised was “noted” as a practice among Japanese troops fighting back and forth along the Kokoda Track. Accounts referr to Australian troops recapturing a location and finding evidence of “protein extraction” having occurred.

        Being a rolling battle with very very tenuous supply lines, things got “interesting”. The Japanese out-ran their supply services, and as they staggered closer to Port Moresby, food became a logistical nightmare. This was not helped by retreating Australian troops destroying their own food depots and sabotaging and contaminating foodstuffs. Pinholes in the lids of cans of fish or meat seemed popular as a method of adding food-poisoning to the “joys” of jungle warfare in a harsh environment.

        I think there are references to this in the appropriately named book on the New Guinea campaigns; “A Bastard of a Place” by Peter Brune.

        Aboriginal cannibalism of Chinese miners and traders in North Queensland rates a mention in “Rivers of Gold”, by Hector Holthouse

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        Dennis

        Leningrad under siege WW1

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    MrGrimNasty

    So, are you a breast, leg, or bottom man?

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      CO2 Lover

      That is just so politically incorrect – it needs to be corrected to “bottom man, woman or non-binary”.

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    Steve

    I wonder how many of the ancient accounts of cannibalism were exaggerated by ‘explorers’ ?
    We know that some groups did imbibe of the long pig, but apparently only on special occasions, not as part of their regular diet.
    What this article seems to suggest is eating people as part of a regular diet, which is perverse and probably very bad for the species.
    We know that with the Canadian model euthanasia started out as something to help those suffering from chronic illness and now it has ‘progressed to something to be applied to anyone who puts a strain on the medical profession. Cannibalism would go the same way, so those in poverty, old, sick or disabled should sit up and take notice. The government would love it if the poor could be forced to eat the poor.

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    Plain Jane

    I am going to say the same thing I said in an earlier post but in a different way. I am a sheep farmer. If a fat lamb bound for market does something stupid and runs into the yard rail and kills itself it is prime to be eaten. BUT I have to stop everything I am doing. Cut its throat and hang it up to drain the blood, preferably before the heart stops beating (death being a process not an event) and gut it IMMEDIATELY because ruminants bloat in minutes after death, and skin it straight away, and get it in a cool room. So how does that go in a death bed scene for granny? Have the gambril/meat hook and hanging chains ready in the bedroom? Very sharp knife at the bedside for when granny takes her last breath? (Was that really the last one? shall we slit her throat now?) Have a gut and blood bucket ready beside the bed? True that humans being non-ruminants don’t bloat quickly, yes I supervised my mothers death at home so I know. But if you are going to eat a carcass you want it processed ASAP after death, ie minutes. This article is obviously written by idiots who have not had to kill their own meat. It is a shame in the modern world people are so removed from their own food source they have NO idea of the process. So if human consumption is going to be done at a scale that matters “to Save the Planet” or “Feed the Poor” then it is better done on an industrial scale in a plant, and killed and processed on the spot. Perhaps that is what “They” want, human abatoirs? That article is ludicrous enough to be totally offensive and ignorant. No wonder I gave up the MSM decades ago. The small doses of MSM I get via Jo are more than enough for me.

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      Dennis

      My five years old son watched his godfather butcher a couple of sheep during an afternoon and was fascinated, and the process explained to him sensibly and in a sensitive way. That evening when we sat down to dinner it was roast lamb and my friend asked his wife if it came from the meat butchered that day. My son. eyes open wide and looking horrified said not them.

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    Phil O'Sophical

    In modern livestock farming there are strict rules, and the old and scrawny and those dying of diseases are scrupulously rejected. So which specimens will be hunted and quietly spirited away after a night out clubbing in the way press-gangs hunted for potential sailors rolling out of taverns? The young and tender and the fit with plenty of muscle. Careful what you wish for you younger folk, I reckon we chewy old things will be off the menu.

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    At MacDonald’s and other Fast Food joints –

    “And would you like fries with that?”

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      CO2 Lover

      Banana leave are the usual side dish

      In 2006, Australian journalist Paul Rafaele became the first white man to travel beyond the pacification line of Indonessian Papua New Guinea. He ventured into the territory of cannibalistic members of the Korowai Tribe. According to the Korowai, they do not eat people – they eat khakhua. These parasitic spirts possess the body of a man – never a woman – and slowly devours their host from the inside out. They must eat the khakhua – just as it ate the human it took over. The Korowai are big on revenge.Korowai cook humans like hogs – in ovens made of leaves and hot river rocks. However, they are quick to point out that human flesh tastes more like cassowary than pig. The individual parts are wrapped in banana leaves and given out to the clan. The head belongs to the family that killed the khakua. They eat every part except the hair, nails, and penis.

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    STJOHNOFGRAFTON

    Garkon, I’ll have the toasted politician steak sandwich. And make it snappy!

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      Dennis

      Pork Pie is the best way to serve up politicians.

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      CO2 Lover

      The Clergy are also on the menu

      Especially on the Cannibal Islands

      In 2003, Fijians apologized for eating Rev. Thomas Baker. The English missionary was the only white man to die of cannibalism in Fiji’s history. Overcome with grief, the Fijians have long since moved beyond this practice. However, he former British colony was once called the Cannibal Islands. Man-eating was a part of Fijian culture from 2500 years ago until the late 19th century. People who died of natural causes were never eaten. Only those killed made good food. Although most food was traditionally eaten with hands, forks were used to eat flesh. Human meat was not to be touched, believing it caused skin disease.In his 1883 work ‘Camping Among Cannibals’, Alfred St. Johnston describes Fijian cannibal culinary technique: flesh was either baked whole in ovens, or cut up and stored in earthenware pots they used for cooking. Certain herbs were nearly always cooked with the flesh, either to prevent indigestion or as a sort of savory stuffing.

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    Dark Potty

    Spread the prions!

    “SARS-CoV-2 Spike amyloid fibrils specifically and selectively accelerates amyloid
    fibril formation of human prion protein and the amyloid β peptide”

    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.01.555834v1.full.pdf

    [Off topic. – LVA]

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      LVA — well technically, if an unvaxxed person ate a vaxxed one, this is on topic…

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        CO2 Lover

        Love the one you eat – unvaxxed preferred

        Women are in for a special treat!

        Peru’s Guayaki tribe knows a thing or two about eating humans. They were endo-cannibals, who eat their own dead. They do not hunt down enemies for food. However, they won’t pass up an opportunity for meat. They indicate that human flesh is sweet – like wild hog. It is a little more tender and covered in a layer of yellowish fat, making it unique amongst jungle animals.Their recipe: girll the human flesh with the bud of the pindo palm. If a man is being eaten – boil the penis, and give it to a woman. Eating male genitalia means they will give birth to a boy. The Guyaki look forward to being devoured by their loved ones. The only way for the Ove, or soul, to reach the heavens is through ritual endo-cannibalism. The deceased will actually haunt the living until there are consumed.

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      Plain Jane

      We dont know yet if “The” spike protein doesnt spread prion disease like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. So cannibalism might spread the spike protein about even more, possibly why they are writing this rubbish. So I think this post is spot on topic.

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    Penguinite

    So Hannibal Lecter was right all along!

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    KP

    Ah, the modern world.. “Furries” wanting sex with animals, sex between cousins called acceptable a couple of weeks back, sex changes in children without their parents permission, now cannibalism between friends..

    We do live in interesting times! As has been said “Eat the rich!”

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    David Maddison

    Notice how the psychology works here?

    First they tell you we (non-Elites) should be eating people which repulses a vast majority of non-Leftists.

    Then, they offer as an alternative, insects saying, “well, if you (non-Elites) don’t want to eat people, then you should be eating insects“.

    And we know that the natural tendency of the authoritarian Left (a tautology) is to punish people for refusing to go along with their schemes so it will become compulsory.

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/

    Why we need to give insects the role they deserve in our food systems

    Australia, being a fanatical follower of WEF decrees is meeting the challenge….

    https://research.csiro.au/edibleinsects/

    To develop resilient food systems, we need to diversify global food supply chains. With more than 2,100 insect species currently eaten by two billion people from 130 countries, edible insects present an important opportunity. Insects have high-value nutritional profiles and commercial insect farming is considered to have a low environmental footprint. The global edible insect industry is growing fast with Europe and the United States of America the leading edible insect markets in the West. This report identifies the challenges and opportunities for the Australian edible insect industry providing a useful framework for First Nations initiatives, start-ups, insect businesses, researchers, policy makers, and members of the general public who are considering engaging with the emerging industry.

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      TdeF

      Really? “the Australian edible insect industry”? We can add that to Australia, the “renewable energy superpower”.

      But as Australia’s largest plastics manufacturer Qenos closes up and leaves, partly because they were among our 250 “Biggest Polluters” and subject to 35% CO2 cash penalties, we may need to look closely at growing and exporting bugs.

      As their company says, “Qenos is the sole manufacturer of polyethylene and polymers within Australia. If you see or use plastic in your household items, it was probably made by Qenos.”

      And the business press notes it, but says nothing.

      The Albanese government is shutting down Australia with extremely punitive CO2 penalties. And they are not even taxes and therefore illegal. Do Australians really want to lose their jobs? Can we all work in the public service?

      And Canberra says good riddance, polluter.

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        CO2 Lover

        Australia will now export more coal and natural gas to China.

        Australia’s exported CO2 emissions are 4 times our “Local” emissions.

        The word “insane” hardly does this justice.

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          TdeF

          Our black coal exports are 12x our local consumption.

          “Australia is a substantial net exporter of energy, including coal and natural gas, with net exports equating to over two-thirds of production.

          Around 91% of black coal energy production was exported in 2021-22,
          around 76% of domestic natural gas production
          and 86% of crude oil production.

          Given our biggest export is coal, I would put it closer to 10:1. And as we head to the mythical Nett Zero, 100:1.

          Now what is the point of that sacrifice of all our industries to Nett Zero?

          Maybe then we can export people as food? Forget live sheep exports. Australia will start send Cruise ships to Asian knackeries. May as well.

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      CO2 Lover

      Australia should be able to become a “Global Superpower in Bugs”

      The witchetty grub has been on local menus for 1000s of years

      Edible either raw or lightly cooked in hot ashes, they are sought as a high-protein food by Aboriginal Australians. The raw witchetty grub tastes similar to almonds, and when cooked, the skin becomes crisp like roast chicken, while the inside becomes light yellow, like a fried egg.

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    Maptram

    “commercial insect farming is considered to have a low environmental footprint.”

    In other words, no scientific evidence of any low environmental impact

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      TdeF

      What’s wrong with krill and phytoplankton? If it’s good enough for whales to prawns, it’s good enough for Australians. Or you can roast your neighbour. Except that works both ways. And take away food becomes run away food.

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      John Hultquist

      commercial insect farming

      Interesting. How many insects to achieve 1,000,000 pounds? [453,592.37 Kilograms]

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        David Maddison

        The Left are lying about the supposed efficiency of insect protein production.

        Figures I’ve seen are that production of cricket protein is about the same efficiency as chickens.

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    Dennis

    This reminded me about the missionaries who were in Papua New Guinea and were captured by head hunters, they were tied to trees and after a couple of days one was taken to a large container of boiling water, skinned and thrown in to cook, and then the skin was pegged out to dry to be made into a canoe.

    When the time came for the second missionary to be eaten when they were cutting the ties he protested saying you can’t boil me, I’m a friar, and he grabbed a knife and stabbed himself several times shouting you won’t turn me into a canoe.

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    John Connor II

    No-one for a nibble on Scarlett Johannson then? 😁

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    John in NZ

    But the only reason we will have to be cannibals is because we are starving because they got rid of the farmers.

    Would it not be easier to just leave the farmers alone?

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    Let’s hope not many are keen,
    On a cannibalistic cuisine,
    Either boiled, baked or toasted,
    Marinated and roasted,
    Or as biscuits of soylent green.

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      CO2 Lover

      I am a Cannibal

      I Starve. I haven’t been fed.
      But I hate butter and bread.
      I’m hungry – I need to eat.
      And I prefer only flesh and meat.

      For Today, my meal is You
      Because you’re fresh and new.
      I don’t want potato finger chips
      But your eyes, ears and lovely lips.

      Have no doubt. I am a Beast.
      I shall take you up as my feast.
      I’ll start by gobbling your neck at first.
      I’ll drink your blood – to quench my thirst.

      Arms, chest, abdomen and calf –
      Part by part – I’ll finish you off.
      You can’t escape my hands, as you’re tender.
      I think, now it’s better for you to surrender.

      Tina Ashok

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    winston

    Movie remake pitch: “Guess Who’s Not Comng To Dinner?”

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      TdeF

      A meal guaranteed not to repeat.

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      CO2 Lover

      The Cannibal Cookbook: Human meat recipes from around the world

      Paperback – 8 January 2021
      by Nico Claux (Author)

      Looking for a book to show to your friends when they are home for dinner? The Cannibal Cookbook is exactly what its title proclaims. Written by former French cannibal murderer Nico Claux, this book explores one of the most taboo forms of cuisine. It is a world tour of gastronomical human meat recipes tried and tested by real life human flesh eaters, like Jeffrey Dahmer or Albert Fish. This cookbook will help you choose the right spices for your own cannibal feast. Precious advice is given on how to get ahold of that very special meat, and how to cut it like a pro.

      https://www.amazon.com.au/Cannibal-Cookbook-Human-recipes-around/dp/B08SGR2W6M

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        CO2 Lover

        Whatever floats your boat!

        Self-cannibalism!

        In 2012, Japanese chef Mao Sugiyama served up his own genitalia to five intrepid diners. A self-described asexual, Sugiyama underwent elective genital surgery just after his 22nd birthday. He then prepared his penis, scrotum, testicles with button mushrooms and parsley. Sugiyama announced the culinary experiment via twitter. The guests paid $250 a plate. Six signed up. Five showed. However, a gaggle of onlookers came out to witness the bizarre spectacle. The overflow diners were feed crocodile-based dishes, while the intrepid five were served the main event.

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          LOL. While in Denver, Colorado, in 1983, I was taken to a Denver Eatery. The starter was a dish called “Rocky Mountain Oysters”. I said, “Hey, we are a mile high and a long way from any Ocean”. These can’t be oysters.

          The host said, “Well John these are steers’ testicles coated in bread crumbs”. So I said, “Well why don’t you just call them crumbed balls?”. At least you know what you are getting. Stunned looks from the locals and then a few giggles.

          Strange people. And if you need a pee you have to go to a bathroom. What a strange country.

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    David of Cooyal in Oz

    I think the proponents of this idea should be a bit careful. It would require enabling legislation, perhaps from the WHO(?), and also cause a re-introduction of the death penalty, which may not appeal to those politicians whose actions are being considered under the Nuremberg Code.

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    CO2 Lover

    Another CO2 free way of disposing of the deceased

    Word of the day: “Excarnation”.

    Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures and corvids. It is a specific type of the general practice of excarnation. It is practiced in the Chinese provinces and autonomous regions of Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia, as well as in Mongolia, Bhutan, and parts of India such as Sikkim and Zanskar.

    The function of the sky burial is simply to dispose of the remains in as generous a way as possible (the origin of the practice’s Tibetan name). In much of Tibet and Qinghai, the ground is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and due to the scarcity of fuel and timber, sky burials were typically more practical than the traditional Buddhist practice of cremation.

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      I’d like to be buried at the foot of an oak tree so that my atoms can be absorbed by the roots of the tree. More carbon for the World. Being cremated only leaves ashes.

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        CO2 Lover

        Any your mother-in-law?

        Two cannibals are sitting around a campfire. One says to the other, “I hate my mother-in-law.” The other says, “Then just eat the vegetables.”

        What did the cannibal get when he came home late for dinner? The cold shoulder.

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      TdeF

      This is true in the middle of Bombay/Mumbai not least by the Parsees, although according to the all knowing internet, the practice is dying out.

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    Steve of Cornubia

    Coming to a TV near you, new cooking show hosted by Jamie Yourliver. The following night at 7pm, the first instalment of My Kidneys Rule.

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    RoHa

    Seated one day at the tom-tom, I heard a welcome cry from the kitchen.

    “Come and get it! Roast leg of insurance salesman.”

    A chorus of “yums” ran round the table.

    Except for Junior, who pushed back his shell, got up from his log, and said …

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      melbourne+resident

      i dont want any part of it! Flanders and Swan

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      Leo Morgan

      I didn’t know the song you allude to, so I looked it up.

      here’s the lyrics:

      I recommend it to the readers.

      There should be no idea that we are not willing to think about. That’s not to say that after thinking about them, we shouldn’t say “Hell no!”

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    TdeF

    On Breitbart, the CEO of Kelloggs suggests that if people do not have enough food, they can have cereal for dinner as well. Great.

    So I can see another progressive Hollywood film.. “Sorry, honey, I ate the kids”

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    old cocky

    It appears Mark Knopfler was wrong

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    Ed Zuiderwijk

    The concept of ‘climate burger’ has suddenly a whole new meaning.

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    Old Goat

    Necessity is the mother of cannibalism . I would rather starve than eat human flesh . I am probably a bit tough and stringy for most people…..

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    Reader

    Like they say in Borneo, the definition of “trust” is oral sex between two cannibals. 🙂

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    CHRIS

    Reminds me of some old cannibal jokes, eg: “Hey Mum. I think Grandpa is tough”. “Shut up son, and eat your vegetables and chips”. And the world keeps sinking into oblivion.

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    anon

    Small pox devastated The American Indian (along with alcohol). Truth be told.

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    Anon

    They had their problems, inherent in the human condition explained by any Shakespearean play. Drought and internecine angling, it all goes with the show, but by and large these were a peaceful people, who trended with the flow.

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    DOC

    If one’s aim is to strip the Planet Earth of human beings, cannibalism is surely the stripping of the last major value civilised societies have ie the value of human life. We go there at our peril

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    Forty years ago being treated for a heart condition, the cardiologist said that indigenous in N.Qld. preferred the Chinese on the menu as they tasted better than the Caucasians. Of course, he said, you won’t hear any talk about that today.

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    warren raymond

    No farmers no food.

    What to do with all the corpses from the coming famine?

    too good to go to waste, right?

    The globalists are just preparing you for what’s coming.

    How nice of them!

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