“But i’m greatly sorry for offending your tender sensibilities and your sense of superiority as a bipedal, hairless ape.”

Me hairless? Not quite. Maybe you are just a late bloomer? As for tender sensibilities, you must have mistaken my post for sarcasm. I’m with you man, fire up the barbecue and bring on the babies!  So tender when they are young, and much easier to harvest than the ones that try and run away.

“We aren’t the only life form to have the ability to reason or feel a profound range of emotions.”

Well, you might be right about that.  I admit to being rather ignorant of animal philosophy, poetry, literature, and technological innovations, because my study of such things has been pretty cursory.  I’m probably selling them short by simply observing their range of natural behaviors and drawing conclusions base on that.

“Do you really think that you’re fully opposable fifth digit makes you that much better?”

Me? No, Steven Hawkings opposable thumbs don’t do him much good, do they? No, I never mentioned thumbs, just intellect, and like I said I agree with you, Jackpine. I think we humans are just a walking buffet of steaks and tenderloins, like most other animals.  Eat up, man!

“And i said nothing about harvesting humans (Africans or otherwise). “

Oh, come on, don’t get squeamish now, Jackpine, you were doing so good. If it’s ethically OK to eat something, then it follows it must be Ok to harvest it. I mean if you have decided something is a valid foodstuff, you have already commoditized it, so no point in letting your tender sensibilites get in the way of maximizing that commodity.

“Cannibalism isn’t just for Africans; there are many examples from a variety of situations.”

True enough, just like murder, rape, slavery. Hey , we are just animals, what’s the big deal? Survival of the fittest. I say.

“When you are hungry enough, Frank, you’ll dig in too.”

Damn right, I’m already planning a safari to Africa to stock my freezer with ‘long pig’. Wanna come along? Don’t worry, I’ll take car of all the killing so you can rationally disassociate yourself with that unsavory part of the process when you eat the meat later.

“I know for a fact that some of my ancestors survived long enough to procreate by eating human flesh...and chances are good that we are all a product of cannibalism. ”

Indeed, along with tribal warfare and occasional ethnic genocide.  If it was OK for our ancestors, it’s OK for us. It’s a man-eat-man world, after all.  We’re only animals, so what’s the big deal?

“Hell, even all of the good Christians of tender sensibilities practice ritualistic cannibalism by partaking in the body and the blood of Jesus H. Christ.”

I’m an atheist so I really wouldn’t know.  How is Jesus best prepared in the kitchen?

“But if i were forced to decide where to start harvesting humans for meat, i would pick the good ole USofA...not Africa.”

Nah, we’re too polluted and full of artificial preservatives and toxins. If you are going to eat humans as livestock want to go for the more naturally raised ones, low in fat. Africa is a good choice, although I’m told some South American tribes are just as healthy and have a slightly more spicy taste.

Well, I have a hunting trip to plan now, and I’m going to need to shop for a bigger grill, too.  I’m glad to know you are with me on this one, Jackpine. So many people get caught up in this whole human rights stuff, that they just don’t know what they are missing at the dinner table.

JS:

“But i’m greatly sorry for offending your tender sensibilities and your sense of superiority as a bipedal, hairless ape.” ROFLMAO!

Also, although it is true that communion (the eucharist) is, in some sense, “ritualistic cannibalism,” it might surprise you to know that there is at least one mention of cannibalism in the Bible.  At 2 Kings 6:25-30, we find the following:

“And there was a great famine in Samaria...And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king...And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.”

Re cannibalism in general, Wiki tells us that it has been recorded in over 1,500 species and that “Cannibalism is not just a result of extreme food shortage or artificial conditions, but commonly occurs under natural conditions in a variety of species. In fact, scientists have acknowledged that it is ubiquitous in natural communities. Cannibalism seems to be especially prevalent in aquatic communities, in which up to ~90% of the organisms engage in cannibalism at some point of the life cycle.”

As for homo sapiens, it was apparently practiced by Neanderthals, but continued as a “practice” in numerous places (and not just due to famine) until quite recently.  In the modern world, it is generally only known as a “practice” among some of the remaining “primitive” tribes, in extreme cases of famine (e.g., the Donner party), and in instances like that discussed in the article above.

Having not engaged in cannibalism myself, I can only assume, based on what I have heard, that humans taste like...chicken.  LOL.

Peace.

Personally, i’d go for the thigh meat first.

What i’m saying is, what’s the big deal?  Meat is meat is meat.  I’ve never gotten the opportunity, but i’d take it if offered.

But i don’t think that people are any “better” than any other animal, and i don’t think animals are any better than plants.  Life is life is life.  And life subsists on death...it’s been that way since the beginning of time and will be that way long after we’re gone.

Who knows?!  But a cute story is the one about two cannibals having dinner and discussing their respective families.  One says to the other, “You know I really hate my mother-in-law.” The other replies, “That’s OK----just eat the vegetables!”

I can see a whole gammut of jokes here regarding which nationalities taste like....?

Ultimo Mondo Cannibale!

These statements sound very much like death metal lyrics. There will probably be a tribute album to Charles Taylor in the near future.