On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> There has been a debate among antropologists about the prevalence of
> cannibalism in most old cultures. The thing is, now that they have
> started to seriously analyze the evidence, they are finding that it
> was the norm rather than the exception. It was a case of not wanting
> to look for evidence of it. Anatomically modern humans have existed
> for 100K years or more; only recently have a lot of us become
> anti-cannibalistic. There is a recent article in Scientific American.
If you're going to eat cow or pig or horse or squirrel, why not human?
It's all just protein in the end.
(Well, in the end it's something else, but when it goes in it's protein.)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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