cannibalism

We eat all kinds of different animals. Eating dogs is culturally ok in some places, but not in others. What's different about human meat? Is it worse for us than pork? How does it taste? Are "slippery slope" and emotional inhibitions the main objections? I think about this every once in a...

No, not a movie title - supposedly an actual restaurant opening in September in Berlin that will feature donated human meat on the menu. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7967193/Berlin-cannibal-restaurant-calls-for-diners-to-donate-body-parts-for-menu.html I smell a...

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This appeared in the Arizona Republic today: http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/0712flashcannibal-CR.html However the by-line is given as someone just called Wireless Flash so I suspect it did not originate there, and may be more widespread. I expect that most readers are familiar...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58544 How much risk does the eating of your own species entail? Kuru, Creutzfelt-Jakob Disease, cannibalism....Sounds risky in addition having a strong cultural bias against it. Is there a greater risk in getting nasty illness as...

The eating of someone who is already dead, with their prior consent. Is this even wrong? Apart from an unsubstantiated feeling of uneasiness, what is wrong with it?

Mr Meiwes, a computer expert, met 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes in early 2001, after Mr Meiwes advertised on websites for "young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter", the German daily newspaper Bild reported at the time of his arrest. Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes...