Posted on 09/24/2014 3:41:54 PM PDT by blam
Yes...it was in New Guinea. But I would think that cannibalism could cause this problem wherever it was practiced.
Unless the video of the Ugandan is “doctored” it would appear that he is showing similar symptoms.
“We are on our way to meet Baboola, a self-professed Cannibal. He is however against the recent murders, and claims that he only eats previously dead people. A very important distinction apparently in the Cannibal culture.”
I should hope so. The good Mr Baboola doesn’t want to be lumped in with those vulgar sorts who just kill you in the street and then drag you home for the evening meal.
Careful, now! Between our 17 Trillion dollar debt, "Stimulus" spending to get out of a recession and "the science is settled - 97% consensus about AGW", that epithet will apply to us all too soon.
LOL. Because a continent of 54 countries, nearly four times larger than the United States, with 1.1 billion people, where the population speaks something like 3000 different languages all somehow keep secret their love for human flesh? Also, has anybody called Africa the Dark Continent since 1920 or thereabouts? You're a weird human type warp.
It’s just been considered politically incorrect and racist to discuss the subject.
No, I think it's perfectly reasonable to talk about cannibalism in Africa and elsewhere. I don't think it's reasonable to label an entire continent as being full of cannibals -- that's astonishingly ignorant and if you want to call it racist, I'm not going to argue with you. Sure there have been isolated instances of cannibalism in a few places - thinking of use as a terror tactic in the Liberian civil war and targeted at pygmy populations in the Second Congo War. But to say that this is a common or accepted practice is ridiculous. That's like saying the Boston Strangler represents an accepted and common American lifestyle.
When I worked in West Africa twenty-five years ago, the population at that time was estimated to be 40% HIV positive.
Again, you're full of crap. There's no place in West Africa where 40% of the population is HIV positive.
When that degree of HIV is found in populations that practice cannibalism, what could possibly go wrong?
There is zero evidence that HIV is transmittable through cannibalism. So your ridiculous premise is getting even more absurd.
In my humble opinion, there is a strong possibility that there is a connection between a population with an HIV compromised immune system, cannibalism, and Ebola.
And so I thank God you're not in any position of authority at the CDC or the WHO.
Narrator:
“Do you still eat people?”
Baboola:
“Giving it up is not easy. But for the most part I no longer do it. Once in awhile I cheat, perhaps a special occasion.”
Avoid Baboola on the holidays.
Wonder if an NEA grant would cover my documentary idea, “Tourist Chef Baboola cooks Chicago Street Kill”.
BTW, that Baboola fella most likely has some drunken Yalie blood in him somewhere in his line.
You don't know the half of it.
HA! True, but you left out the importation of the diseased ‘children’ from our South to ‘even up the score’...it might be sooner than expected
Equal rights! Equal rights! Cannibals are people too. We demand the government supply us with human flesh.
“I believe I had no choice. Some of us are given a magic spell and from that point we begin loving this meat”.
I see the homosexual tactics are applicable to all aberrant behaviors.
For a second there I thought it was another story about Syrian rebels but then I noticed that it was in Uganda and hence probably dark meat.
Reporter to a native man: “Are you a cannibal?”
Native(offended) “ME METHODIST!”
(From SKULLDUGGERY (1970)with Burt Reynolds)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066384/
So “recently dead people” means they all died of some unspecified, unknown disease some unknown time before the bodies were cleaned and prepared for cooking (if they were cooked at all) ..... and have been siting in the hot, flu-infested sun decaying before being turned onto the guy’s food, right?
Yeah. real healthy.
During WWI the Brits were bringing in African troops from all over the Empire to fight the Germans army there.
One group they brought in kept looking at the other native troops and made a big deal of leering at them, licking their lips, and rubbing their stomachs.
Their British officer complained to the Brit in charge of the “cannibals” that their behavior just had to stop - it was scaring the Hell out of the troops.
The officer told the sergeants their men would have to stop eating the others, even though there was no proof they did. The sergeants laughed and said they were only doing it to scare the others away so that they would have first pick of the females when they came to a new village.
Say what you want, it does seem to be more popular there than here.
CAR cannibal: Why I ate man's leg
(and that's all from this year, on just the first page of google results for cannibalism africa)
There is zero evidence that HIV is transmittable through cannibalism.
HIV can be transmitted by infected blood (like from the body you are butchering) coming into contact with an open cut or sore on your hand or elsewhere.
The CIA Factbook has three countries in Africa with HIV rates above 20%, and another 6 with rates above 10%. Not 40%, but still pretty damn high.
You specifically specified WEST Africa as being the place where you were working that had 40% infection rates. In reality, of course, rates aren't nearly that high even in the parts of southern Africa with the highest infection rates. However HIV infection rates in West Africa are actually much lower than that - Liberia's rate of HIV infection, for example, isn't that much higher than America's despite having only a very primitive healthcare system. So, in short, you're full of crap.
As for the rest of the post, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with a few lurid but non-representative headlines from a continent of 1.1 billion people. Last time I checked, Jeffrey Dahmer never set foot in Africa. I'm actually not denying that cannibalism has and occasionally does take place in a few places in Africa - for example there's some evidence of cannibalism targeting pygmy groups during the Second Congo War. But to suggest that this is a common practice continent-wide is bizarre and just demonstrates your ignorance.
I didn’t specify anything and have never been in Africa. I just jumped into the argument you were having with DJ Taylor.
Haven’t you ever heard of bush meat? Smoked bushpig, bat, gorilla, human - basically anything can be served as bush meat. check it out.
There's plenty of legitimately scary stuff in Africa - unstable governments, violent crime, lack of basic infrastructure and disease epidemics without making up nonsense. Bush meat is simply wild game - hunters go into the forest in Africa, just as they do in Pennsylvania in deer season. So what?
My apologies. Thought you were the other guy.
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