A good recipe for Long Pig?

[plasticpig]

Why is cannibalism one of the last great food taboos? Around the world people will pretty much eat anything edible. Yet eating our own species is still unacceptable. When it is an option of turning cannibal or dying it appears to be deemed icky but acceptable.

I cant see any moral objection to eating a human as long as they consent to it. Cannibalism isn't even illegal in the UK. Why is it society deems it unacceptable?

[Don]

Same as incest.

We have a taboo about having sex with your sister.

It's for a good reason - the liklihood of any genetic defect manifesting is multiplied horribly. It's a really really bad idea. Hence we've evolved or have been socialised into thinking it's a bad thing. We've even got religious and secular laws against it.

Eating humans passes on human diseases. Things like "Human Mad Cow" etc. Many diseases that suit other species have trouble surviving in us. But if we eat ourselves...very bad. Hence we are socialised into not doing it - it's a bad idea. And now we even have religious and secular laws against it.

etc

[tuffer]

Don said:

We have a taboo about having sex with your sister.

What if you cook her first?

[Don]

tuffer said:

Don said:

We have a taboo about having sex with your sister.

What if you cook her first?

Now that should have been in the Pie and Piston....

[Romanymagic]

Don said:

tuffer said:

Don said:

We have a taboo about having sex with your sister.

What if you cook her first?

Now that should have been in the Pie and Piston....

You just know someone is going to mention "spit roast"...oh

[sleep envy]

whose, your sister or Don's?

[Don]

swerni said:

sleep envy said:

whose, your sister or Don's?

mine is.
He'll have to let us know if his is worth a dart.

Both of mine are supremely hot, of course. Just in case you are reading, ladies.

But I wouldn't cook either of 'em up for supper.

[uriel]

I was discussing this the other day. If you were in, say, a motorcycle accident and had your leg severed and they weren't able to reattach or whatever, could you ask them to put it on ice to be taken home and butchered for consumption?

[mybrainhurts]

Would you...?

Well, would you...??