Are There Any Culture Today That Include People in Thier diet !?

Question

Or is it just a MYTH - how come there is no evidence not even a single picture or so in the world depicting someone eating someone's lets say hand or leg or so.

Of course we have heard in 1972 a rugby team after a plain crashed survived by eating the deceased. But thats as far as it goes on reported cases.

kr_toronto - Thanks for your comment - if you refer the published scientific journals - Claims are that there are a huge portion in the scientific community that hardly believe cannibalisms among humans ever exisst . Wikipedia are authored by none qualified and non [professional authors - Wikipedia as a reference are not accepted in any official tertiary education platforms

kr_toronto - I am seriously looking more specific on the net now on each of the cases you claim in your comment. - Thank you

Answer 1

Here's what Wikepedia has to say on the subject...



* During the 1930s, multiple acts of cannibalism were reported from the Ukraine during the Holodomor.

* A well-documented case occurred in Chichijima in 1945, when Japanese soldiers killed and consumed eight downed American airmen. This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, five (Maj. Matoba, Gen. Tachibana, Adm. Mori, Capt. Yoshii and Dr. Teraki) were found guilty and hanged.

* During his service in World War II, John F. Kennedy believed that a boy from the Solomon Islands that was his servant bragged of eating a Japanese soldier. Native islanders also in their historical culture also practiced headhunting.

* Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed by accident, and cooked and ate it. He reported that, "It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable."

* While stating that nearly all areas of Appalachia have never practiced cannibalism, James K. Crissman references incidents of mortuary cannibalism from as recently as the late 1930s in some parts of mountainous eastern Kentucky. The practice was intended to honor and dignify the deceased, and the consumption of the corpse was meant to comfort the survivors. Crissman speculates that this rare ritual went out of practice with the encroachment of technology and American society into this geographically isolated region. One such incident is hinted at by a local newspaper of Knox County, Kentucky in 1904. The article, Killed by Train, describes the death of Jno. Cox by freight train. A blurb at the end of the article states the date and time of the visitation and hints at the consumption of "the mortal remains of those who have crossed over the dark river of death" -- a concealed metaphor that practitioners of this ritual would know. In Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish and Other Southern Comforts, when speaking of the large number of Creutzfeldt-Jakob outbreaks in Kentucky supposedly due to eating squirrel brains, the author, Burkhard Bilger, suggests that they may instead be due to possible continuing practices of mortuary cannibalism in the area; however, it should be noted that rumors of mortuary cannibalism in twenty-first century Appalachia are still considered speculation.

* References to cannibalizing the enemy has also been seen in poetry written when China was repressed in the Song Dynasty, though the cannibalizing sounds more like poetic symbolism to express the hatred towards the enemy. (See Man Jiang Hong) The Chinese hate-cannibalism was reported during World War II also. (Key Ray Chong:Cannibalism in China, 1990)

* In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors. The author claims that this included not only ritual cannibalization of the livers of freshly-killed prisoners, but also the cannibalization-for-sustenance of living prisoners over the course of several days, amputating limbs only as needed to keep the meat fresh.

* In The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn described cannibalism as rife among Soviet prisoners in German prisoner of war camps.

* Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s. Davis reported that Cambodian troops ritually ate portions of the slain enemy, typically the liver. However he, and many refugees, also report that cannibalism was practised non-ritually when there was no food to be found. This usually occurred when towns and villages were under Khmer Rouge control, and food was strictly rationed, leading to widespread starvation. Any civilian caught participating in cannibalism would have been immediately executed.

* Cannibalism has been reported in several recent African conflicts, including the Second Congo War, and the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Typically, this is apparently done in desperation, as during peacetime cannibalism is much less frequent. Even so, it is sometimes directed at certain groups believed to be relatively helpless, such as Congo Pygmies. It is also reported by some that witch doctors sometimes use the body parts of children in their medicine. In the 1970s the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was reputed to practise cannibalism.

* On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan rugby team flew across the Andes to play a game in Chile. The plane crashed near the border between Chile and Argentina. After several weeks of starvation and struggle for survival, the numerous survivors decided to eat the frozen bodies of the deceased in order to survive. They were rescued over two months later. See Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The 1993 film Alive tells the story of this ordeal.

* It has been reported by defectors and refugees that, at the height of the famine in 1996, cannibalism was sometimes practiced in North Korea.

* Médecins Sans Frontières, the international medical charity, supplied photographic and other documentary evidence of ritualised cannibal feasts among the participants in Liberia's internecine strife in the 1980s to representatives of Amnesty International who were on a fact-finding mission to the neighbouring state of Guinea. However, Amnesty International declined to publicise this material; the Secretary-General of the organization, Pierre Sane, said at the time in an internal communication that "what they do with the bodies after human rights violations are committed is not part of our mandate or concern". The existence of cannibalism on a wide scale in Liberia was subsequently verified in video documentaries by Journeyman Pictures of London.

* In March 2001 in Germany, Armin Meiwes posted an Internet ad asking for "a well built 18 to 30 year old to be slaughtered and consumed". The ad was answered by Jürgen Armando Brandes. After killing and eating Brandes, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and later, murder. The song "Mein Teil" by Rammstein is based of this.

* In September 2006, Australian television crews from 60 Minutes and Today Tonight attempted to rescue a six-year-old boy who they believed would be ritually cannibalised by his tribe, the Korowai, from Papua, Indonesia.

* On January 13, 2007, Danish artist Marco Evaristti hosted a dinner party for his most intimate friends. The main meal was agnolotti pasta, on which was topped a meatball made with the artist's own fat, removed earlier in the year in a liposuction operation.

* In June 2007, four men in Doha, Qatar, were charged with murder and cannibalism. The incident came to light when one of the four men suffered from severe reactions after eating human flesh and was subsequently rushed to the hospital. When x-rays showed what appeared to be a human finger in the man's stomach, doctors called police.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You'll find a lot more reported cases of canabolism if you read history. It's not so common today but used to be very common in the south Pacific Islands.

Answer 4

There is an Amazonian tribe that lets their dead rot for a few days then the tribe ceremonially ingests the remains of the dead tribe member.

Answer 5

To humans cannibalism is the ultimate taboo but for some animals and insects it’s the way of life.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

There actually are a few third-world cultures and tribes that do. Look it up.

Answer 8

I'm guessing there are tribes in tropical rainforests and deserts who would carry that 'tradition' with them, but apart from them, I don't think there are

Answer 9

Some African tribes are cannibals.