fun fact, unlike humans, chickens doesn't find cannibalism as something gruesome or hideous
We humans have a risk of getting prion disease every time we eat someone of our own species. It is incurable, horrible beyond measures and not a single person in the world wants to go out the way a prion disease will do to you.
We humans have a risk of getting prion disease every time we eat someone of our own species. It is incurable, horrible beyond measures and not a single person in the world wants to go out the way a prion disease will do to you.
That risk is practically nonexistent. Humans don't naturally contain prions and, aside from the extremely rare chance of developing it spontaneously, the only way to contract it is to consume meat that already has them.
The societal aversion to cannibalism has nothing to do with prions.
The only reason the average person even knows about them, the Fore people, practiced cannibalism for most of their history and didn't have prions until the 1900s.
We humans have a risk of getting prion disease every time we eat someone of our own species. It is incurable, horrible beyond measures and not a single person in the world wants to go out the way a prion disease will do to you.
so you're telling me the problem with cannibalism in our society is getting food poison and not the moral implications that come with taking a human life?
so you're telling me the problem with cannibalism in our society is getting food poison and not the moral implications that come with taking a human life?
They could have died from natural causes, just gotta prep it while its fresh
so you're telling me the problem with cannibalism in our society is getting food poison and not the moral implications that come with taking a human life?
Ngl if you really think about it if we practiced cannibalism we would not only solve world hunger, but also overpopulation and reduce deforestation massively as we wouldn’t have to chop down rainforests for farms.
Also we slaughter hundreds of millions of animals a day not just for food but for our clothes and we also inflict immense suffering on animals such as literally raping cows just to make milk. Cannibalism might inflict less suffering than factory farming, and would help us stop factory farming as we will not be eating as much animal meat.
Ngl if you really think about it if we practiced cannibalism we would not only solve world hunger, but also overpopulation and reduce deforestation massively as we wouldn’t have to chop down rainforests for farms.
Also we slaughter hundreds of millions of animals a day not just for food but for our clothes and we also inflict immense suffering on animals such as literally raping cows just to make milk. Cannibalism might inflict less suffering than factory farming, and would help us stop factory farming as we will not be eating as much animal meat.
Chickens will eat just about anything that they can gobble down they're like walking bird trash cans which includes other chickens but they don't go out of their way to kill another to eat them
Ngl if you really think about it if we practiced cannibalism we would not only solve world hunger, but also overpopulation and reduce deforestation massively as we wouldn’t have to chop down rainforests for farms.
Also we slaughter hundreds of millions of animals a day not just for food but for our clothes and we also inflict immense suffering on animals such as literally raping cows just to make milk. Cannibalism might inflict less suffering than factory farming, and would help us stop factory farming as we will not be eating as much animal meat.
mf read Johnathan Swift's Modest Proposal and didn't get the joke
mf read Johnathan Swift's Modest Proposal and didn't get the joke
This is a common misconception. Johnathan Swift doesn’t suggest that the poor eat their babies, but instead that they sell their babies as food to the rich. He also makes calculations on how much their meat would be worth.
A Modest Proposal is directly making fun of capitalism, and more specifically business owners through this. It makes fun of the idea of business in general with making out the price of the meat and trying to make a profit, as well as pointing out the unethical practices of business owners.
In a post capitalist society cannibalism can still be mandated and managed by the state for good purposes.
We humans have a risk of getting prion disease every time we eat someone of our own species. It is incurable, horrible beyond measures and not a single person in the world wants to go out the way a prion disease will do to you.
coincidentally i just had this conversation today, and i had a theory that the aversion to cannibalism is an evolutionary trait that developed out of social animals like human. because social animals depend on each others to survive, it is disadvantageous for them to eat each others - rather than banding together & cooperating to find food (& distribute food, & preserve food) more efficiently. over time, natural selection weeded out those who practiced cannibalism, leaving those who doesn't. enough time passed and the "no-cannibalism" rule is somewhat hard-coded into genetic, producing adversed physiological effect in (most of) those who practices cannibalism (alongside the societal taboo).
when you look into other species, cannibalism is not really that taboo in general; nature is hardcore after all. a pair of rabbits (or any other rodents) having produced too much offsprings that they can't feed, may resort to offing some of their weakest offsprings to recover some proteins.
coincidentally i just had this conversation today, and i had a theory that the aversion to cannibalism is an evolutionary trait that developed out of social animals like human. because social animals depend on each others to survive, it is disadvantageous for them to eat each others - rather than banding together & cooperating to find food (& distribute food, & preserve food) more efficiently. over time, natural selection weeded out those who practiced cannibalism, leaving those who doesn't. enough time passed and the "no-cannibalism" rule is somewhat hard-coded into genetic, producing adversed physiological effect in (most of) those who practices cannibalism (alongside the societal taboo).
when you look into other species, cannibalism is not really that taboo in general; nature is hardcore after all. a pair of rabbits (or any other rodents) having produced too much offsprings that they can't feed, may resort to offing some of their weakest offsprings to recover some proteins.
There are probably numerous factors for why that is, including what you suggested. I have for a long time considered one of the reasons actually being the prion disease, not because people knew what it was back then, but because they didn't know. The only correlation they had was that people that ate human flesh were more likely to go insane and die in a horrible way as time passed, leading to superstitions of some god or another punishing them for the deed or simply that eating one's own flesh lead to you being cursed (/similar concepts depending on the time period).Us being social animals definitely plays a part, but I do suspect it is a multitude of factors that lead to it becoming the taboo it became for most civilizations.
