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Cannibalism
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Not sure if this is right section, but, if you were in a situation (say after a global disaster, or stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere) would you consider eating human flesh to stay alive? Oh and I dont mean Hannibal 'hunt em down and kill em' style either. But say you were in a big group of people and one of them died would you eat them or would you rather starve?
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Even in the most extreme cases, the act of cannibalism is treated with scorn and disgust by many cultures and is sometimes punishable by social ostracization, institutionalization in a mental facility, arrest, incarceration or even death. Cannibalism is most commonly believed to be the epitome of savage behavior.
Without any provisions, those left alive would resort to cannibalising the dead, those who refused to eat the human flesh would die of starvation if not rescued. You could last anything between 46-73 days without food providing you had water.
I would cover human fillet in Teriyaki sauce for an hour then 2 mins in the microwave and have it with oven chips and spinach and tomatoes, that is my favourite tea with trout fillet so it will probably work with human don't you think pixi ?
Also , did you read this that someone posted up yesterday? grue -and then- some
hi octavius, i know ancient people like aztecs and incas practised cannibalism (though please correct me if im wrong) and i also know it is practised by some tribal people even in this day and age, so it seems that it is only 'modern thinking' that makes cannibalism 'wrong' (god that sounded bad, i'm not saying cannibals should be allowed to eat people) but i do believe if it came to it, a hell of a lot of people would actually do it.
Pixi, I think the Scottish cannibal you mean is Sawney Bean! He and his deeply inbred family lived in caves and attacked travellers.
As for eating a dead person's flesh in the event of nothing else being available, I would. Not that I hope to be in that situation, you understand. Have you seen the film Alive - about the Brazillian football squad who crashed in the Andes in the 70s? They had this dillema.
Yes they probably would, but don't you think society would be a little bit outraged/disgusted when they found out.
The survivors of the Donner Party expedition were were regarded as monstrous criminals and tried for their actions. The travelers served around six months before they were re-released back into their communities.
I guess nowadays things are little bit different. The 1972 Andes survivors had a film made about them. Of the 16 survivors, 15 are married and have families and are businessmen who are doing well, Roberto Conesa, a medical student at the time of the crash, is now a renowned pediatric heart surgeon who may run for the presidency of Uruguay.
I imagine in the extremes of survival you would do anything to survive, even if that meant eating your friends or relatives. I don't wish to find that out though.
hi waldomcfroog, thanks for that, yeah it probably is him im thinking about, wow my dad used to scare me to death with the stories he told of him and his family. Funnily enough i was thinking of the film alive as i was doing my post, although i thought it was real gruesome i have no doubt that i would've done the same myself.
Octavius I agree that society would be appalled when they found out, and i think it would be much easier to eat a stranger rather than a family member or friend.
Strangely enough even though i would eat a person if i was starving there is no way i would eat those fat grubs things (witchita grubs i think they are called ) gross
