DailyDirt: Actually, It *Is* Soylent Green...
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
People eat a lot of weird things, but most folks frown upon cannibalism. Some forms of cannibalism are more socially acceptable than others. Here are just a few examples of people eating other people (or parts of them).- Ingesting placenta capsules doesn't sound like a very modern way to get vitamins and nutrients. But there are other ways to eat placentas -- dried and powdered, roasted, raw... uh. Yum? [url]
- Three people in Brazil have confessed to murdering and cooking up their victims for food. The murderers actually made empanadas out of their victims and sold them as meals to neighbors. [url]
- Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal, describes how he likes to prepare human flesh for dinner -- and insists he's just a normal guy. Meiwes is also serving a life sentence for killing and eating Bernd Brandes in 2001. [url]
- Two Dutch TV hosts have eaten each other's surgically-removed flesh. Their meat was cooked, but unseasoned -- without fava beans or a nice Chianti sauce. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Filed Under: armin meiwes, brazil, cannibalism, food, germany, soylent green, vitamins
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
See NOVA "Can We Live Forever"
Pretty neat all in all. You could live quite some time until you suffered brain death.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re:
And really, until brain death? That's far too soon.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re: Re:
Eventually your brain will suffer from cell death, smoothing, rot, etc.
Trying to live forever is a foolish man's ambition. Best case scenario might be right around 300 years. This also assumes you would want to live that long. Also that the machine your existence relies on is taken care of better then you took care of your body.
Simple electrical short is all would it would take to whack your brain in a machine.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Food?
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re: Re:
I guess it depends on how literal you are with that....
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Hey Michael
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Hey Michael
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
I would say more, but it's dinnertime, and I'm having leftover rapper in the basement.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]