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"People are understandably revolted by the idea of eating a human corpse, which is exactly why they should also lose their appetites at the thought of eating an animal corpse—to smell them cooking, you can’t tell the difference," says PETA Campaign Coordinator Mike Brazell.

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Do I even want to know why this guy knows what a cooked human smells like?

The very fact that we can safely eat most animal meat and not human meat just shows that PETA is wrong, as usual.

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Quoth Azizza:
Actually eating humans is very bad for you. It can lead to a number of medical conditions. I am not sure of the whole reason behind it but apparently we are just not made to live off of each other.

The very fact that we can safely eat most animal meat and not human meat just shows that PETA is wrong, as usual.

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There's one extremely rare disease (similar to Mad Cow, oddly enough) that one can get from eating human flesh, but I've never heard of anything else. It's supposed to be pretty much like pork, though, so maybe it's more about cooking it well enough than not being able to live off it, eh?

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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Azizza who doth quote:
The very fact that we can safely eat most animal meat and not human meat just shows that PETA is wrong, as usual.

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Well, when you understand that the core belief off of which they operate is that animals have a greater intrinsic value than humans, this sort of thing makes sense.

They're all utter lunatics, but at least they're predictable.

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Maradon! really knows where their towel is...
They're all udder lunatics, but at least they're predictable.

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Bloodsage had this to say about Captain Planet:
There's one extremely rare disease (similar to Mad Cow, oddly enough) that one can get from eating human flesh, but I've never heard of anything else. It's supposed to be pretty much like pork, though, so maybe it's more about cooking it well enough than not being able to live off it, eh?

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Those are the prion diseases. The cannibalism related one is called kuru, and it's caused by exposure to the infectious conformation of the human prion protein, which is found in nervous tissue. Cooking won't help much there, either, because that particular protein really likes to form its infectious conformation--even sterilization processes don't destroy it.

It spread through New Guinea because their funeral proceedings involved eating the brains and organs of their dead relatives, and feeding the flesh to the guests.

Which is very cultural, but a really bad idea.

I WANT HUMAN SPARE RIBS! Not any of this tofu crap.

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Check out the big brain on Pvednes!
Those are the prion diseases. The cannibalism related one is called kuru, and it's caused by exposure to the infectious conformation of the human prion protein, which is found in nervous tissue. Cooking won't help much there, either, because that particular protein really likes to form its infectious conformation--even sterilization processes don't destroy it.

It spread through New Guinea because their funeral proceedings involved eating the brains and organs of their dead relatives, and feeding the flesh to the guests.

Which is very cultural, but a really bad idea.

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So basically we're fine if we just eat flanks and so forth?

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Fazum'Zen Fastfist had this to say about Robocop:
So basically we're fine if we just eat flanks and so forth?

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And steer clear of the filter parts, i.e., liver, kidneys, etc. It stands to reason that eating the parts that filter out the bad stuff would not be good as an entree.

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Fazum'Zen Fastfist's tombstone read:
So basically we're fine if we just eat flanks and so forth?

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The risk is much lower, but it's still like eating British beef.

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Nobody really understood why Pvednes wrote:
The risk is much lower, but it's still like eating British beef.

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Well I've done that before and I wasn't affected, so might as well!

The infectious conformation destabilizes the regular conformation of PrP, and causes it to form the infectious conformation, which does the same thing to the rest of it in a chain reaction. The infectious conformation is insoluble, forms aggregates, and disrupts the membranes of the nerve cells.

Eventually the brain is so full of holes, it's like a sponge, and the unfortunate individual dies horribly, but not before being crippled with dementia over a few months.

You'd be really hard pressed to spot the differences.

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Bloodsage had this to say about Captain Planet:
... It's supposed to be pretty much like pork,....

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From the few fire fighters and EMTs I have known, burning flesh does have the same smell as burning pork.

Peter fucked around with this message on 06-07-2006 at 09:27 PM.

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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about Robocop:
I've been meaning to ask you again, Pvednes. Why is meat good? I know it's good and you had a real nice argument about it. I'm fighting with the vegans again.

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Lean meats are excellent sources of iron, zinc and vitamin B12, and are full of protein, and so are essential components of a healthy balanced diet. Vitamin B12, especially, is only found in animal products. Besides that, it's delicious.

In any case, which argument do you mean? I've got quite a few angles on that one.

Plus, if you've had the privilege of seeing firsthand, the human digestive tract has a similar omnivorous structure.

Pvednes fucked around with this message on 06-08-2006 at 02:56 AM.

Man, that was good.

Fazum'Zen Fastfist fucked around with this message on 06-08-2006 at 01:49 PM.