[FossilFool]

I assume everyone here would not kill someone with the intention and sole purpose to eat that person in a Peak Oil crash situation.

Would you eat someone if perhaps the person were trying to kill you and you killed them to defend yourself?

If you found someone dead, would you eat them?

I have heard it mentioned that there might be a lot of cannabalism.

[TorrKing]

I would not, there will be other things to eat if you know where to look.

But think that some people, without the sufficient skills to get themselves food may turn to cannibalism. And those who are psycopaths in the first place. They may eat humans just because they are easier to catch or to their perverse satisfaction.

Cannibalism is so grim that I think I would have difficulties looking at a cannibal as a human being. Regardless of his motives.

Torjus Gaaren

[Dukat_Reloaded]

Like Dog eat Dog?

It's a hard question, I don't know, but if you were starving perhaps I would munch on a previously dead body, but I would not go out hunting humans for meat. If I was trapped in a room with 10 people and we kept going thinner and thinner, I think the time would come we would have to draw straws or all die, so I guess in some instances there is an honest motive and who knows what you would do if you hadn't eaten in days, your mind would be playing tricks on you and pretty much unconsiously perform the eating for you.

Does anyone know of an experiment or accident which has ocurred in the past where a bunch of the same type of animals had been locked up together and not been fed for weeks?, what would they do?

[The_Virginian]

love these issues, keep coming back to haunt us.




let's say contigency cannabilisim is something few would admit to, but most everybody would do if their lives depended on it for nutrition.

And most would deny it afterward.

Wipe that Guilt off your face you Slob!

[truecougarblue]

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[gary_malcolm]

Mmm, Dinner...


I suspect that the combination of Couch Potato, Vegetarian and Youth will make for the best sauteeing.

Older Carnivores should be stewed with root vegetables until the flesh falls away from the bone. And remember, the closer to the bone, the sweeter the meat.

G

[ashurbanipal]

I would kill someone who came to do violence to me or my family or friends (presumably because I should have plenty of food, textile materials, energy, etc.) and then put them in a compost pit. Does that count as canibalism?

[threadbear]

The first trial's murder conviction was overturned on a technicality: some say the judge said: "There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you ate five of them."

http://sangres.com/history/alferdpacker.htm

[Leanan]

The Donner Party did kill people to eat them. Among the first to be killed were their two Indian guides. (Hey, they're not really human, right?)

They also discussed drawing lots and killing and eating the loser. They decided to wait until someone died naturally instead. Eventually, though, they helped someone along. One of their number caught his sleeve on fire while sleeping near the firepit, and rather than put it out, they let it burn, so they could eat him.

The last person to be rescued, Lewis Keseberg, is likely responsible for killing several of the Donner party. He threw an older man off his wagon earlier in the journey, abandoning him in the wilderness to die. He also killed two young boys so he could eat them.

Keseberg was the last to be rescued because none of the other four people they left with him survived. He ate them all. He claimed they died naturally, but that was viewed with suspicion, since at least one of the people left with him was healthy and strong. (Indeed, he later spoke about how delicious she was, since she still had so much fat.)

The History Channel aired a two-hour documentary on cannibalism the other night. It claimed that it was common for people to kill and eat their own children during times of famine. Europe, Egypt, China...in times of famine, people consume their own children. I find that hard to believe. OTOH, things were different back then. Most children did not live to adulthood anyway, so perhaps parents were not as attached to their kids as they are today.

[threadbear]

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The History Channel aired a two-hour documentary on cannibalism the other night. It claimed that it was common for people to kill and eat their own children during times of famine. Europe, Egypt, China...in times of famine, people consume their own children. I find that hard to believe. OTOH, things were different back then. Most children did not live to adulthood anyway, so perhaps parents were not as attached to their kids as they are today.

[Leanan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou know I really find this hard to believe. If this was the case, wouldn't people in the Sudan and Somalia be eating their own children during their prolonged famines?