Poll: Cannibalism

[snew]

If you keep momma fed she'll keep producing milk. Feed her the babies if you have to.

 

[Trlsmn]

"...has become..." ??? !!!


Keith

Well I am testing a recipe now, it should be out of the smoker sometime this evening.........

 

[jordanvraptor]

Well I am testing a recipe now, it should be out of the smoker sometime this evening.........

Can I get some fries with that...?

 

[trainsktg]

Tonight while reading I stumbled upon an event pertinent to our conversation...

In May of 1933, 6114 malnourished Soviet peasants, forcibly relocated to a remote, barren island in Siberia with no food, shelter or even firewood quickly began to die in large numbers due to exposure and starvation. By August over 4000 were dead, the remainder staying alive by eating those who had died.

The survivors were later arrested for cannibalism.

Source: Gulag, Anne Applebaum, Pgs. 75, 76.

Keith

 

[Decker]

Tonight while reading I stumbled upon an event pertinent to our conversation...

In May of 1933, 6114 malnourished Soviet peasants, forcibly relocated to a remote, barren island in Siberia with no food, shelter or even firewood quickly began to die in large numbers due to exposure and starvation. By August over 4000 were dead, the remainder staying alive by eating those who had died.

The survivors were later arrested for cannibalism.

Source: Gulag, Anne Applebaum, Pgs. 75, 76.

Keith

That's probably because none of them were supposed to survive in the first place and the officials were just pissed off and arrested them out of spite.

-d

 

[novamind]

What! Cannibal helper again

 

[Trlsmn]

Why won't cannibals eat divorced women?
They're very bitter.

 

[Just Jim]

Funny how easy it is for people to say they would kill and eat others to stay alive.

jj


Edited to add: You guys are sure having fun with this thread. How about we start one on how to HUNT canibals during a SHTF. Certianly it suggest survival and the use of guns

jj

 

[terrylf72]

I chose die, but thats why I have dogs. but there are thing I WOULD do to feed my kids. and make sure they were taken care of. So there should have been a Maybe choice.

 

[uscsoldier]

 

[powersbj]

Seems with this group the question should be what wouldn't you do to survive.

 

[soberups]

Truthfully...what's the difference between defending yourself from someone who's intent is to cause you bodily harm.........and killing someone who is "innocent" in order to survive? Honestly, I don't really know the answer to that myself. I dont think I would be able to murder someone in order to eat them.....unless I already didn't like 'em, or if a loved one was starving.

There is a huge difference.

We all have a fundamental right to survive...but our survival cannot come at someone elses expense.

It is morally acceptable to kill someone who is trying to harm me or my family. That is self-defense. It is not morally acceptable to murder someone in order to eat them.

If I had no other choice, I would eat the flesh of those who had already died. But I would not commit murder. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

 

[trainsktg]

There is a huge difference.

We all have a fundamental right to survive...but our survival cannot come at someone elses expense.

It is morally acceptable to kill someone who is trying to harm me or my family. That is self-defense. It is not morally acceptable to murder someone in order to eat them.

If I had no other choice, I would eat the flesh of those who had already died. But I would not commit murder. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

Considering that most of the stories I've read involve folks eating only the dead, your views are probably the ones most people adhere to...fortunately.

Keith

 

[Father of four]

Try a piece of human bar-ba-qued flesh?

As Fred G Sanford used to say..."Elizabeth, I'm coming to join you honey!"

So would I if I had to chose between eating human or meeting my maker.

Here I come Jesus! Thats not the "Man-ah" he intended on us eating.

 

[Bad Droid]

I bet most of us would resort to cannibalism if those were the cards we were dealt. I went hungry for 4 or 5 days and it wasn't pleasant, I cant imagine several weeks or months without food. It must get very painful.

 

[trainsktg]

Most of us have never been put through the physical trials of folks such as the relocated kulaks and the shipwrecked sailors I mentioned earlier. And there are other stories too...WWII German POWs along the Eastern Front, residents of Stalingrad during the 1942/43 seige, all resorting to eating the dead. History is full of such stories. We're a pampered lot by and large here in modern America, and I'm not saying that disparagingly. I enjoy comfort and I'm glad we have the lifestyle here that we do. But until we've personally been through the same debilitating physical travails as other folks discussed earlier...well... its nice to be able to profess a stand on principles but in reality there are precious few people who do not have a breaking point and would actually take those principles all the way to the grave.

Keith

 

[Working 4 U]

only the females

 

[SheepDog223]

I'm not sure this is a valid question in the PNW. Worms are not hard to find anywhere or anytime around here. On Earth bugs outwiegh humans so I suspect that food should be available almost everywhere one would go.

 

[Just Jim]

Problem is the cannibals amoung us are too lazy to get their own food. They would rather eat their neighbors than work. Socialist lol lol

jj

 

[trainsktg]

Between June of 1941 and January 1942, at the hight of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, approximately 2.8 million Soviet prisoners of war were forcibly starved to death by their German captors. Soviet POW deaths were approaching 1% per capita per day. Many desperate men resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.

Please tell me, how a prisoner, held captive in an open-air barbed wired 'cattle pen' with hundreds of thousands of other men, with no supplies or food, where the only shelter he might have had was a hole he dug out of the ground with his bare hands, was lazy and unwilling to work for food if he resorted to eating dead bodies to live?

Its very...very...easy to be judgmental of such men when our bellies are full and we don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from.

Keith