Cannibalism

[syo]

What is actually wrong with cannibalism?

Your brain will get badly damaged.

 

[InChrist]

I have an observation....

As far as I am aware no religion that I know of explicitly forbids cannibalism.

Why?

And does this mean it's OK?

And if it is wrong, why?

What is actually wrong with cannibalism?

And no, I am not a cannibal and neither do I condone the practice indeed I find it distasteful, but don't know why. I suppose I just do.....

I think the biblical scriptures certainly make a strong case against cannibalism; consuming the flesh of human beings created in the image of God.

What does the Bible say about cannibalism? Is there cannibalism in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I can't remember the last time I ate meat that was hunted, with the exception of seafood that is wild caught (aka, hunted). Back before factory farming, yeah, it'd have been more of a tossup. Animals allowed to just live their lives, basically, enriched of their own accords before being sacrificed so that we may live.

Meh...I ate a lot of hunted food when I lived in PNG. Fair to say it wasn't always cleanly killed, so I wouldn't necessarily treat it as more ethical than farmed food, depending entirely on context.

There is still some hunted food available for common consumption in Australia (particularly kangaroo, more rarely sometimes camel).

 

[lewisnotmiller]

The Fore people of Papua New Guinea used to practice funerary cannibalism. They ended up suffering from kuru, a degenerative illness contracted from eating infected brains. That's one good reason to avoid eating human brains, delicious though they may be.

It's an interesting...if kinda morbid...topic actually.

https://www.researchgate.net/public...ua_New_Guinea_to_the_Neanderthals'_Extinction

One of the things which caused some confusion was the different rates of transmission between different areas (Southern vs Northern Fore, or some of the surrounding Highland tribes with similar practices), all of whom were practising cannibalistic rituals as part of funeral rights (so, not cannibalistic rituals of their enemies, but instead their relatives).
There was variance in whether the bodies were buried and then exhumed after they became maggot-infested, or not, for example.
Predicting mortality rates was further complicated by the very long incubation period of the illness.

 

[Brian2]

A delightful first course.

Washed down with a glass of chianti.

 

[Brian2]

Even if properly drained of blood people would not be kosher or halal. For mammals they need to be hooved, those hoofs must be split. And they must chew their cud.

Yes I should have known that.