Why is cannibalism bad?
By flamez3r0
@flamez3r0 (319)
Puerto Rico
March 28, 2012 5:47am CST
I was wondering about our disposal of dead people and I began to wonder why we don't use their meat as food? I don't mean going around killing people to eat, just using the people that die (lets say of accidents or old age to avoid plagues developing from sick people) and process their meat for food. Or lets say that for some reason its gross, why don't we use the bodies as fertilizer? Instead we pump them full of chemicals that end up in the ground and sometimes damage aquifers or leave whole patches of contaminated. So why, in a logical point of view, is it bad for us to use the remains of people to benefit those who are still alive? Be it by eating them or by using them as fertilizers to increase production on farms.
4 responses
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
28 Mar 12
in reality i never considered this situation a spossible probably it sounds really scary eat the human meet for dinner so in amny cases even for animals species of the same race never die eachothers so humans are not an exception!!
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@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
30 Mar 12
I would never consider that at all. it's just so inhuman, and against our culture or morals.. 
I can't even think of eating someone's loved one or using them as products...I'd rather burn them/cremate so they won't take up much place.
I can't even think of eating someone's loved one or using them as products...I'd rather burn them/cremate so they won't take up much place. 
I can't really imagine using or eating a person, since he or she had life and moments here on earth, he or she has relatives too- I would just feel so guilty. I'd rather eat vegetables and insects. @flamez3r0 (319)
• Puerto Rico
30 Mar 12
Hello and thanks for answering :D. The same could be said about any type of meat, although in less proportions. That's why we developed supermarkets, so all we see is the piece of meat already cut, making it really hard to remember the whole animal. The same could be done with humans. In fact, its totally possible the ground beef you ate earlier this week had some poor humans meat, that he lost in an accident :p. Nah but in all seriousness, if society had established this as plausible, we would've develop ways to ignore where the meat came from. It's not like we would take a baby and bite on it, the same way we don't bite on a cow or a pig. We would process it, cut it, put it in packages and sell it like we do with all other meats, except chickens but chickens don't count since they are evil :).
