Me too. I'm always kind of mystified by the taboo of cannibalism (aside from the questionable health of it, long-term.) I would not kill another person to eat them, of course. But if I were dying of starvation, and there were dead pets or people available, I would absolutely eat them. I would think my family would want me to use their body so that I didn't die myself. I would certainly hope they would do the same to me, rather than bury me and starve shortly after.

Unfortunately, no one knows anything else about the Donner family despite the efforts of the descendants to change their brand.

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I'd eat another person to stay alive - much like the soccer team whose plane crashed in the mountains...

I've eaten plenty of voles and almost never eat any family members.
What is all the hoopla?

I personally don't think human beings should feel guilty about their place on the food chain. Every animal strives to reach the highest point on said chain that they can, including sharks and big cats, who don't mind eating a bit of long pork every now and then of course.

We are not physiologically designed to be vegetarians. For starters our gut and our teeth don't particularly like it. We need more protien in our diet than a person in their normal course of life can achieve by eating just vegetarian options. Of course, thanks to advances in food production, we can suppliment a vegetarian diet so that we can be healthy, but at what expense?

There are pros and cons to all diet choices and when it comes down to it, individual health is the least of them as far as the rest of the world goes, but we cater for each other because that's the way our society works.

No one judges the lion when he eats an antelope because he's just doing what comes naturally. Why judge a human for doing what comes naturally?

I noticed how you neatly sidestepped the question of Voles vs offspring in your gastronomic analysis.

Does a pig with a sore throat count?

That's cause I don't eat voles or my offspring. I do sometimes eat my husband though. Does that count?

We'd have to ask him, now wouldn't we.

Only if you swallow.

Ooh, did I say that? :blush:

I've always assumed a (ovo-lacto) vegetarian can eat cheese. I guess not! So, if rennet is used in the process of making the cheese, it should be listed in the ingredients?

Depends. Do you chew him up?

I have a female friend that I eat occasionally. I don't chew her up though. Well, maybe a nibble here and there...:D

He doesn't like it when I chew; strangely enough. lol

Anyway, better stop talking about this. Apparently I'm getting a reputation. :D

Seriously, inquiring minds want to know. If you are a vegetarian, can you swallow, you-know-what?

Not that I would anyway. Yuck. :greenface

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