Should cannibalism be against the law?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

[wtmusic]

1. Er, Fean--do you have something you want to tell us?

Not sure I want to know...

[madmax]

2. I'm wondering the same thing.

Or is it all the talk of torture and mayhem bringing out the crazies in us.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. LOL

[FeebMaster]

4. The way I figure it, your body belongs to you and if

you're dead I guess it belongs to your next of kin or whoever you will it to and if that person wants to eat that's OK with me. If you don't want to get eaten, best will your corpse to someone who isn't planning on eating you. Now going around stealing bodies to eat or killing people to eat, that's wrong.

[leftistagitator]

5. I assume people not voting "Yes" are kidding, right?

< locks doors >

[DoNotRefill]

6. I regularly eat human flesh....

of course, it's my own, and generally consists of toenail and fingernail ripped from my hands and feet by my own teeth...I'd kind of like to gnaw on the calluses on my elbows, but i'm not that flexible.

[zonmoy]

17. I too occasionally eat my own hair nails

and occasional bits of skin.

[Paladin]

22. Are You Guys Familiar With The Old Saying......

....that you are what you eat?

Just wondering......

[DoNotRefill]

23. It's called recycling...

And if I am what I eat, and I eat myself, doesn't that make me....myself??? What's the hubub....Bub?

[Paladin]

24. Want To Eat Yourself? Be My Guest

I think the sooner you ingest your trigger finger, the better it will be for all concerned. Bon appetit.....

[MrSandman]

25. Wow, 23 posts without a gun reference...

and it didn't come from the RKBA supporters.

[skooooo]

7. Wow..lots of interest in cannibalism this evening....

:wtf:

[slackmaster]

8. Illegal with an exception for survival situations

If you have no alternative other than starvation, that is.

[Maurkov]

9. Naw.

As long as it is consensual, not coerced, blah blah blah.

I don't care that it's icky, but I am concerned about diseases like kuru. I suppose I'd want it regulated in restaurants for public health reasons. At the same time, we don't have laws forbidding private individuals from poisoning themselves with e. coli, salmonella or botulism, so knock yourself out.

[CO Liberal]

10. I Thought It Was

Remember Alferd Packer? And Jeffrey Daumer?

[slackmaster]

11. I believe they were both convicted of murder, not cannibalism

Title 18 of the United States Code has no references to cannibalism. Neither does the California Penal Code.

Got a cite?

[CO Liberal]

12. That's Surprising

I always though cannibalism was illegal.....

:shrug:

ON EDIT - I found this on the Snopes site - underlining mine:

Cannibalism is undoubtedly the strongest taboo in modern society, and in a country where most people turn up their noses in digust at the thought of eating horsemeat or duck eggs, the sales potential for human meat is negligible. Aside from that pesky marketing problem, however, is the inconvenient fact that it simply isn't legal to sell human flesh for consumption (by other humans or anything else) anywhere in the United States (or to export it out of the USA), no matter how "fresh" or carefully packaged it may be.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/manbeef.htm

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. Well that says nothing

about cannibalism, only about selling human flesh.

[MrSandman]

14. Sale, but consumption itself?

The unprecedented case has proved problematic for German lawyers who discovered that cannibalism is not illegal in Germany.

Instead, they have charged Meiwes with murder for the purposes of sexual pleasure and with "disturbing the peace of the dead".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1099477,00.html

[slackmaster]

15. Nobody has bothered to outlaw it because so few people want to do it

Makes sense.

[MrSandman]

16. Paging Mr. Donner, Mr George Donnor...n/t

[CO Liberal]

20. Alferd Packer, Table for Four......

:-)

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

18. If it were legal, the "EAT ME" bumper stickers...

.. would VANISH!

[NorthernSpy]

19. in America, human bodies are commonly and legally cannibalized...

...for parts. That's what organ transplantation is. Of course, it does require prior authorization from the to-be-deceased.

We've all read stories about life-saving organ transplants, and I suppose that those can be justified under the same ethical rationale that justifies emergency-nutritional cannibalism. But some cannibalization is carried out for comparatively trivial reasons -- eg, to provide the implantable tissue that gives people larger, poutier lips for a price.


Mary

[LibLabUK]

21. Hmmm.. interesting definition of cannabalism you have there...

However, organ transplants are only done from cadavers when there's no alternative (such as drugs, surgery or a living donor).. when there's a sure-fire way in which to engineer organs to meet the demand we'll stop using cadaveric organs... not least of all because of the risk of rejection.

[LARED]

26. VERY wierd stuff

http://www.4law.co.il/cann60104.htm


More Cannibal Cases Probed
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

Posted: January 6, 2004 11:06 a.m. ET



(Kassel, Germany) The trial of a man accused of killing another gay man in a bizarre sex ritual has been told this is not an isolated case. The investigator in charge of the case testified Monday that Armin Meiwes is one of possibly hundreds of other men interested in killing, carving up, and eating their sexual partners.

Meiwes is on trial for the murder of Bernd-Jürgen Brandes in 200. Meiwes has admitted slaughtering Brandes but maintains he was a willing victim. Other evidence presented in the case also points in that direction. (story)

Inspector Isolde Stock told the court that the two men met on the internet through a cannibal website. Stock testified that when police seized Meiwes' computer they found enough violent gay pornography, email correspondence with others involved in cannibalism, and postings in "cannibal forums" to fill two trucks if all the material were printed out.

According to Stock the investigation has shed light on a global network that links "maneaters" from nearly every continent.

"There were also lots of pictures of naked men he had contact with, although many of these seem to have been erased," Stock told the court.

Meiwes and Brandes met after Meiwes posted an ad on one forum for a "young well-built man who wants to be eaten".

Two naked pictures of Brandes taken from Meiwes' computer have been submitted as evidence against him.

Stock said that under questioning by police Meiwes said that there are at least 800 active participants in cannibal forums, and that he was in contact with at least 400 of them. Other experts say the real number is probably much higher.

"There are several hundred people with cannibalistic tendencies in Germany alone, and many thousands around the world," said Rudolf Egg, a criminologist in the German central criminal service.

Only a tiny proportion of those entering cannibal chat-rooms were willing to follow through and meet in real life. Meiwes met only four men and Brandes appears to have been the only one willing to be killed.

The judge read out selections of Meiwes' email conversations. In one Meiwes after exchanging emails back and forth with a man identified only as "Jörg" in which they described their sexual and cannibalistic fantasies "Jörg" noted "there is nothing sexier than to be killed like a pig."

©365Gay.com® 2004

[slackmaster]

27. Eating the dismembered corpses of spammers should remain legal