Of course they did. And…? ~
The Neanderthal group poster said, “I recently read two differing opinions on the subject. Sang-Hee Lee argues, “There may be cannibalistic behavior, but there are no cannibals,” meaning that even if humans have occasionally practiced cannibalism in extreme or special circumstances, it has always been an aberration of the human experience. Meanwhile, Carole A. Travis-Henikoff argues, “We all have cannibals in our closets,” meaning that every human culture has practiced cannibalism. Cannibalism is almost portrayed as the quintessentially universal human experience.
Then I must have not had enough to do – or just not wanting to do what I need to be doing today and thought…
…It would have to be. Just because we have convinced ourselves that eating any animals is ‘ok’ and not “cannibalism” of one sort or another, then we have to get past not just the eating of animals (us, or other animals); we have to get past killing “it/them” to be able to eat it/them.
We continue the justification in that we do not eat dogs – they are different. But how?
The cult movie Soylent Green gave us the horrors of one finding out what is “done to” people, without ever thinking that people are saving people – saving mankind and womankind by being dinner.
Today vegans are teaching us, rightly so, what vile creatures we carnivores truly are, and how our hunger for a rare beef steak is a throwback to when we gathered round the fresh kill and ripped raw meat off the bone
The thought is about what I might excuse in myself over cruelty to cows, and others, and global warming, and at the same time all the while I would be appalled if I saw so’n’so eat a dog or another person.
The deli I worked at from my teen-age years had a couple of cans of exotic foods. There was elephant, tiger and turtle soup. If anyone remembers Browdy’s in Mountain Brook you might remind me of what other items – top shelf and the isle that went back to the butcher shop and restaurant – of course the “old” Browdy’s. Not to be mistaken for the first Browdy’s – I bet fewer remember there.
Exotic foods and taboos. Like evil pork. OMG and I am not being sacrilegious or trying to be ‘smart’ — as in smart-mouthed as my mother would caution — but I had no idea much of my life that eating of the vile pig was so awful to some.
I am the type who would not want to offend, and so naturally I would not want to eat pork in front of a person who thinks it is so awful, so no matter what, the nursing homes will need to be segregated by eating habits or some will have evil taboos thrust upon them in their frailty – but maybe they will not know what it all is and so it won’t matter.
It won’t matter since all this is a matter of just what we think about it. Like cannibalism being the topic of the post today in the Neanderthal group on Facebook – this is all what we think. Once we get past the killing of the creatures we do eat.
Reading ingredients:
We don’t really eat food anyway, in many places, we eat Polly- something.
Today’s group member shared the articles and this book which spurred the – food for thought.
Marionetta Strung-Out 