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I'd never heard of cannibalism outside of "eating your enemies" this explanation is really touching and quite sad
by erdo 5y ago
I'd never heard of cannibalism outside of "eating your enemies" this explanation is really touching and quite sad
- haunter 5y agoYou never heard of survival cannibalism? Donner party, Flight 571 etc.
- erdo 5y agoOh that's true, I'd forgotten about that - (cannibalism is not something I generally think about much at all to be honest!)
- LinuxBender 5y agoAnd the original true story that Moby Dick was based on. Quite gruesome. Lesson learned, don't wait until your ship mates have no body fat to eat them, or the protein won't be absorbed.
- dessant 5y agoPeople were selling body parts for cooking during the Russian Revolution. NSFL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%9322#/media/File:Cannibalism_during_Russian_famine_1921.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%9... Widespread cannibalism has also been documented in the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Cannibalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Cannibalism
- erdo 5y agoThanks for that link, I was aware that Stalin was responsible for a famine resulting in millions of deaths, but had no idea of the details
- philjohn 5y agoYou should read up about Trofim Lysenko who was the real architect of the famine.
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoAbsolutely not. Your rendition of history is horribly wrong, I mean "Batman fought Hitler on a tyrannosaurus in WWI" levels of wrong.
- echlebek 5y ago"Architect" seems a bit strong but the article on him says he contributed to famine in the USSR and China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Consequences_of_Lysenkoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Consequences_of...
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoThe article is mostly bullshit. Any non-STEM topic on Wikipedia lends itself to cheap sensationalism and partisan politics.
- philjohn 5y agoPlease expand then on what the causes of the famine were.
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoWhatever they were, Lysenko had nothing to do with it. His argument with Vavilov was a purely scientific one - Lysenko campaigned for epigentic heredity, while Vavilov was a reductionist geneticist who was against epigentics on principle. (Modern science vidicated Lysenko, by the way.) Their argument was very dirty - "administrative resource" was mobilised and political sides were picked, but there is no way Lysenko had enough clout to be anywhere near setting government policy.
- orwin 5y agoAnd even then, you didn't eat your enemy whole. It was the hearth or another important organ depending on the current culture.
- LatteLazy 5y agoIt comes up a lot, especially in areas that lack a natural protein source (eg Papua New Guinea or parts of Africa). People aren't really short of calories but they lack other nutrients so...