There are cultures where, at a certain age, the elderly are ritually killed, and served up to their tribe. NOT eating your dear aunt was considered dreadfully insulting to her spirit. Very tight family dynamics.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:40 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jed sez > >> Seriously, so what? I honestly don't find anything scary about it. I admit I >> might hesitate to try the stuff myself. But I am not an adventurous eater. > > I'm curious. Why do you suspect you might hesitate to sample it? Is it > still a cultural issue, like it might be for me? Do you suspect there > might be some part of your psyche that still believes it would be like > eating "people", like in the classic film, Soylent Green? I suspect it > would be for me. For you, I assume it not an issue of taste since > we've all been told since childhood that "long-pig" tastes like pork. > > ...Not chicken. > > I wonder if our species might have acquired a genetic predisposition > NOT to eat our own kind unless there are no other options left for > getting protein. Evolution wise, I wonder if it played out that eating > your own species on a regular basis turned out to be, more often than > not, destabilizing to the overall cohesiveness of the group. I could > buy that as a rationalization. > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >
