I’ll start off this post by saying that I obviously do not think that I could eat another human just for the taste, nor do I think that mother’s would be willing to have babies solely to raise them just enough to make money from their sale. However, I do feel like this article brought up some interesting points. If Ireland would have started this trend back in the 1700’s whose to say that by now it wouldn’t just be seen as “just something the Irish do.” Many Americans see their dogs and cats as humans and the fact that some cultures breed them for food has just become a fact of life. Many countries in poverty are having more children than ever with even less food and money then generations before them. If baby meat was turned into a highly sought after commodity, then many of these families may be able to greatly increase their quality of life. There is also the problem of over population which in turn is destroying our environment. Women will eventually become too old to bear children and many men also lose the ability, so if they were then consumed it would drastically shorten the “circle of life.” Along with the consumption of babies, we would drastically reduce the world’s population which would in turn allow this planet to sustain life for much longer. These ideas seem about as crazy as Swifts and I even feel pretty ridiculous as I write this. But I think it’s interesting that if this concept was accepted by the world some 200 odd years ago, today it would just be the way of life.
Read, Piers Paul. Alive; The Story of the Andes Survivors. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974.
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It's interesting to note that these ideas seem somewhat logically sound up until the point of factoring in the aspect of human attachment to/compassion of our young. I can't help but wonder if this is the basis from which we derive our validations for the consumption of animals...
This is a very good observation. I like how you note that if humanity had accepted the concept of eating other humans 200 years ago, that it would just be a way of life today. I too believe that cannibalism would definately help with over population, hunger, poverty, the environment, and other things as well, but like you, I have a hard time thinking that we as humans will ever accept the eating of our own kind as "normal."
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