Newsweek: Taboo Against Eating Human Flesh is ‘Unreasonable’

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Humans may rethink our "taboo” against eating human flesh, two Lancaster University academics proposed in an article Wednesday.

Many animals including mammals eat members of their own species, so perhaps in the future humans will “succumb to reason” and rethink ourtaboo” against eating human flesh, Newsweek proposes in an article Wednesday.

There is “nothing necessarily unethical or unreasonable” about eating human flesh, declare psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University, and even when eating another human is “reasonable”, cannibalism is often “overridden by our feelings of repulsion and disgust.”

While not going so far as to recommend cannibalism, saying “there is no need to overcome our repulsion for the foreseeable future,” the two Newsweek authors suggest that humans could get over their disgust for human flesh “quickly” if they needed to.

“Many people develop disgust for all kinds of meat, while morticians and surgeons quickly adapt to the initially difficult experience of handling dead bodies,” they note. “Our ongoing research with butchers in England suggests that they easily adapt to working with animal parts that the average consumer finds quite disgusting.”

Breitbart report: Moreover, the psychological revulsion experienced over the prospect of consuming human flesh is not the product of reason and may even contradict reason, they argue in Wednesday’s article, which originally appeared last week in The Conversation.

“Survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash waited until near starvation before succumbing to reason and eating those who had already died,” they propose.

All sorts of animals eat members of their own species, from spadefoot tadpoles and Australian redback spiders to gulls and pelicans, they state.

And cannibalism can even be found among mammals, they add, such as with many rodents as well as bears, lions, and chimpanzees.

Yet humans seem entrenched in their conviction that anthropophagy is simply wrong, no matter how many conditions are placed on hypothetical scenarios.

Human revulsion toward cannibalism stems from our tendency to associate “personhood and flesh,” the authors propose, even when the flesh in question is no longer living.

Even if we can bring ourselves to deem cannibalism morally acceptable, they contend, “we can’t silence our thoughts about the person it came from” and so our “bias” against eating human flesh persists.

“The way we interact with animals shapes the way we categorize them. Research shows that the more we think of animals as having human properties—that is, as being ‘like us”’—the more we tend to think they’re gross to eat,” they note.

While noting in passing that “philosophers have argued that burying the dead could be wasteful in the context of the fight against world hunger,” the authors ultimately do not propose breaking this taboo “for now,” saying that “we’re as happy as you are to continue accepting the ‘wisdom of repugnance.’”

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

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5 Comments

  1. Normalizing satanism again. After Canaan and the sons of Ham were cursed by Noah, they believed by eating the sons of Shem and Jalpeth that they would take on their superior attributes. Cannibalism and blood drinking have long roots in Satanism. Al Gore for example carries a briefcase filled with human blood with him everywhere he goes, hes addicted to adrenalized human blood. Adrenalized blood is when you torture someone before drinking their blood, as the fear causes the blood supply to be infused with Adrenalin. They say adrenalized blood is as addictive as heroin. God (Yahweh) also said the life force is in the blood, so satanists believe by drinking someone elses life force, they are prolonging and improving their own lives, as well as the fact that living against god makes satan happy, and he will give them riches and demons “too control” (you never really control a demon, they own you).

    Leviticus 17:11 – For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.

  2. When the grocery stores close, and people realize Monsanto has restricted our ability to produce new seeds to grow new crops (through their terminator seeds), you will likely see people in the streets eating people. The majority of the small food suppliers have been wiped out by the illuminati ran companies (Walmart, Walgreens, etc), farmers have all switched over to Monsanto seeds in order to stay competitive as they have higher yields, and they dropped the price to force out farmers not using Monsanto seeds, you will realize we are in big trouble. The key fact with Monsanto seeds is that they don’t produce new seeds like traditional seeds, nor does the government allow stockpiling seeds anymore, so you have to buy them every year. Leaves us very vulnerable too say the least.

    It almost reminds me of revelation 6 5-6 kjv:

    5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

    6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

  3. Sick beyond any understanding. This rag just became a big player in the downfall of western civilization.

    So which editor at Newsweek do we barbecue first?

  4. This is why 7th degree witches like Nasty Nancy and Hildabeast are showing advanced signs of Kuru Disease.

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