Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Cannibals for Christ wrote:

Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Ethical to whom? Probably not to the dinner...

Cannibals for Christ wrote:

Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Depends. Who gets eaten?

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Graham Kennedy

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"Cannibals for Christ" wrote in message
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Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Cannibals don't eat clowns-they taste funny

"Cannibals for Christ" wrote in message
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Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Many species are cannibalistic.

-Rubystars

"Cannibals for Christ" wrote in message
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Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

There is a new cannibal diet to lose weight.
You only eat family members.
It's call the Eat-kins Diet.

On 25 Nov 2003 14:56:49 -0800,
(Cannibals for Christ) wrote:

Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Q. What did Dahmer say to Mrs. Bobbit?
A. You gonna eat that?

Warlord Steve
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"Cannibals for Christ" wrote in message
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Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Not from a 'social contract' point of view I suppose:
"You don't try to eat me and I won't kill you to stop you trying to eat me".

Alun Harford

Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Self correcting, like inbreeding.

The closer a food animal is to the creature that eats it,
epidemologically and histologically, the more care is required to
avoid being infected by your food.

Habitual cannibalism in several societies that have practiced it have
turned up some unique neurological diseases like kuru, which vector
from human meat to human cannibal.

In a world where cannibalism was socialized, with modern hygiene and
cooking technologies, it might be less of an issue. But a society that
practices it widely before those tools become available is unlikely to
survive as a coherent community long enough to develop them. So again,
good negative feedback.

In article ,
Steve Knight wrote:

On 25 Nov 2003 14:56:49 -0800,
(Cannibals for Christ) wrote:

Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Q. What did Dahmer say to Mrs. Bobbit?
A. You gonna eat that?

Cannibal 1: "I hate my mother-in-law."
Cannibal 2: "Then just eat your vegetables."

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"Steve Knight" wrote in message
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On 25 Nov 2003 14:56:49 -0800,
(Cannibals for Christ) wrote:

Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Q. What did Dahmer say to Mrs. Bobbit?
A. You gonna eat that?

Q. What would you call a statue of John Wayne Bobbit?

A. The Penis De Milo.

On 25 Nov 2003 18:05:14 -0800, (Paul Hume)
ejaculated:

Is cannibalism just as ethical as any other diet?

Self correcting, like inbreeding.

The closer a food animal is to the creature that eats it,
epidemologically and histologically, the more care is required to
avoid being infected by your food.

Habitual cannibalism in several societies that have practiced it have
turned up some unique neurological diseases like kuru, which vector
from human meat to human cannibal.

In a world where cannibalism was socialized, with modern hygiene and
cooking technologies, it might be less of an issue. But a society that
practices it widely before those tools become available is unlikely to
survive as a coherent community long enough to develop them. So again,
good negative feedback.

And yet there still are "Stone Age" cannibalistic societies, aren't
there? At least there have been up into recorded history.

It would seem that the pressure against wouldn't be too strong for it
to persist. Unless, the cannabils that were recently discovered
hadn't been doing it for too long (like it was the latest fad or
something) and hadn't had an oppurtunity to infect themselves out of
existence.

--
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
- Benjamin Franklin

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:38:56 -0500, Beowulf
posted in alt.atheism:

And yet there still are "Stone Age" cannibalistic societies, aren't
there? At least there have been up into recorded history.

There have been claims by many primitive (neolithic and later) peoples
that they heard from a neighboring tribe that someone in that tribe
knew someone who had heard that some other tribe was cannibalistic -
or some hearsay like that.

Actual ritualistic cannibalism is, and always has been, extremely
rare.

It would seem that the pressure against wouldn't be too strong for it
to persist. Unless, the cannabils that were recently discovered
hadn't been doing it for too long (like it was the latest fad or
something) and hadn't had an oppurtunity to infect themselves out of
existence.

Cooking, which is the only thing relevant to prion-caused disease, has
been around since man discovered fire. Even homo erectus cooked his
food.
--
"I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be under-
stood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can
comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of
humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."
- 1954 or 1955; quoted in Dukas and Hoffman _Albert Einstein the Human Side_, p. 39
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"Al Klein" wrote in message
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Cooking, which is the only thing relevant to prion-caused disease,
has
been around since man discovered fire. Even homo erectus cooked his
food.

Apparently you've never been to Japan.

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Research into Internet search engine Google.com found that the
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Britney's ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake was found to have 206 hate
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...hive/2003/12/0
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