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wonkothesane · 07-23-2003, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by JGL53
If we ever run out of non-human animals to eat, I'll certainly consider human flesh. I keep hearing that it tastes like pork - some cannibals even call it 'long pork'.

Hmmmmm. The cremation, or pickling and burying, of millions of human corpses annually does seem rather wasteful. Think how many cows, pigs, chickens, etc. could be spared yearly if 'person pitas' were on the menu. (I'll alert PETA. I bet they'll go for this in a BIG way.)

PETA Pitas!

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But back to Hitler. Maybe we should make it legal to kill and eat Nazis. Who knows - maybe their FLESH is 'superior'.

No...maybe it just TASTES superior! We should eat them *first*!

- bryce

NonHomogenized · 07-23-2003, 08:58 PM

Yeah, that was one thing that always bothered me. For example, at the end of Soylent Green (hint: spoiler ahead), there's the scene with Charleton Heston saying "You've got to warn them. I've seen it. The oceans are dying. Soylent Green is people. It's made out of people. Soon they'll be breeding us like cattle..." blah blah blah. Well, if there's nothing else to eat, why not eat the people who go to the suicide clinic (or whatever it was called)? And where do we get the leap of logic from that to "breeding people like cattle"? But I digress...

Well, sheesh, I mean, yeah, you have to cook it thoroughly, but what's so wrong with eating people who are already (recently, and non-diseased) dead, if the food source is needed (or, if people really want to, if it's not needed, but they're dead of, say, heart attacks)?

wonkothesane · 07-24-2003, 07:29 AM

Well, seriously, eating people just sounds a bit morbid and creepy to me. (And I'm not personally serious about it.) But then again, so does pumping them with formaldahyde and putting them in plastic boxes...

If I can't afford cryonics, then donate my organs, and put what's left in a burlap sack and bury me under a big ol' tree somewhere, so at least I can give back something to the environment that I have taken so much from...

- bryce
"Donner, party of 8!" (aw heck, can't remember the exact joke...)

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07-23-2003, 08:58 PM	#32
NonHomogenized Veteran Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: no longer at IIDB Posts: 1,644	Yeah, that was one thing that always bothered me. For example, at the end of Soylent Green (hint: spoiler ahead), there's the scene with Charleton Heston saying "You've got to warn them. I've seen it. The oceans are dying. Soylent Green is people. It's made out of people. Soon they'll be breeding us like cattle..." blah blah blah. Well, if there's nothing else to eat, why not eat the people who go to the suicide clinic (or whatever it was called)? And where do we get the leap of logic from that to "breeding people like cattle"? But I digress... Well, sheesh, I mean, yeah, you have to cook it thoroughly, but what's so wrong with eating people who are already (recently, and non-diseased) dead, if the food source is needed (or, if people really want to, if it's not needed, but they're dead of, say, heart attacks)?

07-24-2003, 07:29 AM	#33
wonkothesane Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Outside of the asylum... Posts: 2,049	Well, seriously, eating people just sounds a bit morbid and creepy to me. (And I'm not personally serious about it.) But then again, so does pumping them with formaldahyde and putting them in plastic boxes... If I can't afford cryonics, then donate my organs, and put what's left in a burlap sack and bury me under a big ol' tree somewhere, so at least I can give back something to the environment that I have taken so much from... - bryce "Donner, party of 8!" (aw heck, can't remember the exact joke...)

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