Topic: Would you eat a human? - page 44. (Read 81757 times)

This was not the article I read since it seems to be only several days old...and doesn't say the same thing I was implying anyway...but is interesting to the discussion none-the-less

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-chimpanzee-super-strength-human-muscle.html

The idea I was thinking of was that in humans more nerves service the muscle fibers (which is believable given our much larger brains.)  This makes it less easy to contract all muscle tissue simultaneously.  I will say that when a jolt of adrenaline hits humans can achieve impressive feats of strength.

You seem to be of the relatively antiquated idea that humans are not apes.  I learned that we are, and it makes perfect sense to me.  In fact, I'm of the understanding that humans and chimps are more closely related than are chimps and gorillas.  That is to say, the divergence was farther back time-wise on an evolutionary tree.

As for the 98% similar genome, I believe that a 0.1% change would be perfectly sufficient to produce a vastly different muscular pattern.  The function of DNA in protein synthesis is such that genome percentages are not a terribly meaningful metric when it comes to defining physiology.

Currently it is in vogue to shit-talk humans, consider ourselves inferior in all ways, and generally engage in self-loathing.  As I understand things, humans are uniquely good at long duration running and it is probably and artifact of being evolved for 'endurance hunting.'  That is, running game such as large ungulates to exhaustion.  From a physical fitness point of view I find that 'something to be proud of' so to speak.

Well unleast someone's being realistic here, not referring to the cooking itself but to eating the human meat. Since, if you've seen the previous replies, a lot of people said that they wouldn't be eating the human meat even if they starved to death. I'm seriously hoping that they don't end up in any similar situation just to see that they were very wrong.



What about the situation above in the replies?

Never ever even when someone offer me a million dollars for this task. Eating flesh of human is disgusting thing, it is also unhealthy and forbidden in all the religions i know so far.

Thats a very strong statement, that human beings have "different muscle structure" from other apes   especially, since about 98% of genome between chimps and homo sapiens is the same. Can you provide link for that statement?

I have different point of view. Retards also can without prior training develop huge amounts of raw strength, they are not inhibited by higher brain functions. The rest of the difference I see in the body build. Human beings ultimately developed on savannah, where speed, overall endurance and height count just as much as brute power.

You can see in the very bones, that chimps would make great armwrestlers and brawlers (if they had cognitive ability for it), but terrible runners and scouts.



So in short, no. I dont believe apes and humans have inherently different muscle tissue   Nerve system? Sure, afterall it is tied to both bones and brain. Youd be hard pressed to find two human beings with the exact same nerve system in that regard.

Also - nerves do no have any particular taste. You are eating heat treated meat, not nerve endings.

I was recently reading about why other apes seem to have a lot more strength than humans.  Chimps and Gorillas are notoriously powerful by human standards.  Turns out that humans are 'wired tight' so to speak.  More nerve pathways to muscle tissue makes for finer motor control but less brute strength.

Anyway, just thought it was interesting.  I suppose the somewhat different muscle structure compared to other animals might be visible to the naked eye.  Especially when cooked.

Cannibalism (also known as antropophagia).

The Soviet journalist Yevgenia Ginzburg was a former long-term political prisoner who spent time in the Soviet prisons, Gulag camps and settlements from 1938 to 1955. She described in her memoir, Harsh Route (or Steep Route), of a case which she was directly involved in during the late 1940s, after she had been moved to the prisoners' hospital.

    ...The chief warder shows me the black smoked pot, filled with some food: 'I need your medical expertise regarding this meat.' I look into the pot, and hardly hold vomiting. The fibres of that meat are very small, and don't resemble me anything I have seen before. The skin on some pieces bristles with black hair (...) A former smith from Poltava, Kulesh worked together with Centurashvili. At this time, Centurashvili was only one month away from being discharged from the camp (...) And suddenly he surprisingly disappeared. The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there. Approaching the fireplace, Kulesh killed Centurashvili with an axe, burned his clothes, then dismembered him and hid the pieces in snow, in different places, putting specific marks on each burial place. ... Just yesterday, one body part was found under two crossed logs.

I can cook him in the sand, it is a low and slow method. Should be good.

If eating a human means having all that you said then i might eat human, and maybe when I'm not thinking straight which can happen when I'm starving to death you wouldn't think about it as gross you'll just think any way to survive.

no, i cant imagine myself eating human flesh. I think eating human will make you poison because you will be contaminated by their disease.

But what about this.

You're on a desert island, nothing around you but sand and the help is arriving in 10 days and let's say that you can survive only 7 days and there is a body next to you. Would you eat him to survive those 10 days?

Without any preparations? hell no, I'm not the animal.

There are only two ways to cook any piece of meat. Hot and fast, or low and slow. Anything in between is liable to end in toughness.

Life as in horror movies. People eat each other The point is generally insanity or even something more serious. I can not imagine it at all.

They probably have fewer sources of good meat there in the archipelagos . 

Cannibalism in the past is more than just hunting down food, it has symbolic meanings. For example, I remember some tribe in Indonesia that cannibalizes people accused of witchcraft.

I think then u start to starve the primal instincts of survival pops up, and at some point u start not to think anymore. The primitive animal borns in u and he only wants to survive, so u can't say for 100% that u won;'t do this Just sayin )

no, i would not, what type of question is that ?
i would if it gives me superpower of time travel. j/k.

This is gross, why would I eat a human? Even there's no more food in this world I won't do this.

Neither do I.  Even if it is for survival I will never do that.  I believe there are many edible plant in our surroundings so we can eat those.  And maybe, when you are trapped in an island, there is still coconut, insects, fish, or anything that you can stuff your stomach.  Insane people are only to that eating humans because maybe they liked the feels to eat people.

That's some crazy thing that you are doing there. They are going to go crazy in that part and especially, they are pigs. Soon, the humans will eat it and be crazy with it and have stomach problems because of it. Oh well, I will have no choice but still, eat pork.

That's how you dispose of the body you let pigs starve for a few days and then throw in the body, they'll eat it a ll up and the bones too tbh, GMO isn't bad at all.

@Elwar
You are sick!
You couldn't pay me to eat that