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Cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom - so why is it the ultimate taboo for humans?
Newsweek ^ | August 20, 2019 | Jared Piazza

Posted on 08/22/2019 11:35:43 AM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: Trump20162020

That was from here, BTW:
http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode26.htm


21 posted on 08/22/2019 11:45:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: cuban leaf

“Well, I do feel a bit peckish.”


22 posted on 08/22/2019 11:46:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Trump20162020

Leave it to News weak to be too stupid to figure this out.


23 posted on 08/22/2019 11:49:49 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Trump20162020

Could be because we are made in the likeness and image of the LORD GOD Almighty, the Creator of the heavens and the earth and we are not animals?

If we are just animals, then life is worth little except to the individual critter. Not so with Human, who become a living soul at their creation. Soul (Mind, will, emotions) body and spirit.


24 posted on 08/22/2019 11:50:12 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: dfwgator

:D


25 posted on 08/22/2019 11:51:09 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: dfwgator

Here’s that one plus the other cannibalism sketch;

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rsmd7


26 posted on 08/22/2019 11:51:10 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: JoSixChip

My first thought exactly.

Save the planet - recycle mom and dad, and all those aborted “tissue lumps”


27 posted on 08/22/2019 11:55:18 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: MattMusson

[[Because we ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil]]

Perfect response- you win the itnernets today!


28 posted on 08/22/2019 11:55:29 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Trump20162020

Because we know where they been.


29 posted on 08/22/2019 11:55:32 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Trump20162020

You are what you eat.


30 posted on 08/22/2019 11:56:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Trump20162020

Never eat a clown. The meat tastes funny.


31 posted on 08/22/2019 11:56:51 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Trump20162020

Stupidity abounds


32 posted on 08/22/2019 11:58:09 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Trump20162020

Isn’t there a form of mad cow disease caused in human beings from eating other human beings? Especially brains and nerve tissue?

Pirons get concentrated and the victim goes nuts and dies.

No thanks!


33 posted on 08/22/2019 11:58:11 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: sarge83

“Cannibalism, homosexuality, legalized pedophilia, bestiality”

You forgot Abortion. Murdering your own babies using a vacuum cleaner to rip them apart is far more repugnant then even buggery. In fact, we can argue that it’s the central evil of our time: a regression to the barbarity of the uncivilized past.


34 posted on 08/22/2019 11:58:23 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Trump20162020

This is in newsweek, so no surprise.

Because humans have a sense of right/wrong. That’s why humans are called human, and animals animals.

Animals hunt and eat other animals, so why do liberals want humans to stop eating animals? huh?

Humans have ideas of right and wrong. Taboo is the word liberals use when they hate one of those ideas.

In addition to our sense of right/wrong, nature endowed us with a disgust for certain things, such as eating humans, incest, eating rotten food, and more.

Newsweek is a failing leftist rag.


35 posted on 08/22/2019 11:58:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Kuru.


36 posted on 08/22/2019 11:59:10 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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Found it!

Wikipedia
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Kuru

Kuru is a very rare, incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is caused by the transmission of abnormally folded proteins, which leads to symptoms such as tremors, loss of coordination, and neurodegeneration.

The epidemic likely started when a villager developed sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and died. When villagers ate the brain, they contracted the disease, and it was then spread to other villagers that ate their infected brains.[5]

While the Fore people stopped consuming human meat in the early 1960s, when it was first speculated to be transmitted via endocannibalism, the disease lingered due to kuru’s long incubation period of anywhere from 10 to over 50 years.[6] The epidemic declined sharply after discarding cannibalism, from 200 deaths per year in 1957 to 1 or no deaths annually in 2005, with sources disagreeing on whether the last known kuru victim died in 2005 or 2009.[7][8][9][10]


37 posted on 08/22/2019 12:00:43 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: cuban leaf

You won’t find this under cannibal jokes, I looked:

What do you call a cannibal who just devoured his wife’s mother?

Gladiator!

;^)


38 posted on 08/22/2019 12:01:10 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Trump20162020

If I human being has to ask that question, we ought to have a way of taking away their “human” I.D. card.


39 posted on 08/22/2019 12:01:19 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Publius

Thanks! I was posting when you answered.


40 posted on 08/22/2019 12:01:28 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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