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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Do you guys ever wonder if your Lemmy is on a list?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I GUARANTEE Lemmy will be on the news as a "left extremist platform promoting violence" in the next 5 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Given how many accounts on here can only possibly be psyops, I operate on the assumption that cops are aware of this platform, which is why I try to avoid saying anything too egregiously illegal here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

196 will be eating corpse starch bars in no time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Average corn starch fan vs average corpse starch enjoyer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I would rather eat worms than eat a human. double tee eff mates.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The best part about worms is you can grow a bunch of them on a fresh cadaver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

why are people so interested in eating humans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I like meat but I find the slaughter of animals morally objectionable so I don't eat any 🤷‍♀️

[–] Dupree878 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Avoid the nervous system, internal organs that aren’t heart, lungs or liver, lymphatic and glandular systems and you eliminate prion disease worries

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

nomnom mlem :3 <3

[–] MantisTobogganMD 9 points 1 day ago

the higher the net worth the richer the backstrap

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

gurl up top looks SO comfy cozy in her gymnastics suit <3

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What exactly do you mean by "what"? I think my comment told you exactly what I think it should.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You can't just go rolling up on a girl calling her comfy cozy like that. What kind of build-a-bear workshop raised you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I still don't understand.. What do u mean by "you can't"? Is it that it's weird to tell people that they look super lovely and comfortable in their clothing? Is that being too direct? Is it more appropriate to dress my wording with business speak?

Ah, hello Hanna. I hope my sight does not deceive me, and your day so far has been great! Your attire today suits you very well ~ business-chuckle.

But I like to tell people that they look comfy in the clothes they wear. If they beam because of it, I wanna tell em, but not in business speak, but in human-loving speak.

[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 days ago (25 children)

Prion diseases. Accumulation of different substances, like mercury, lead, strontium-90, and, a new contender to the list: micro plastics. And you'll want to have a look at a person's medication and likely want to make sure they've been off of it for a few days before consuming their flesh.

[–] amzd 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Farm animals are legally allowed to eat actual plastic, not only microplastics. If you’re afraid of microplastics or accumulation of substances maybe don’t eat meat.

Legal limit of plastic in animal feed is 0.15% in the EU

A cow eats 25kg of dry food a day

25/100*0.15 = 0.0375kg = 37.5grams

A plastic bag weighs 6-8grams.

You are legally allowed to feed your cow 5 plastic bags a day (as a snack)

[–] tacosplease 3 points 11 hours ago

The cow can have a little bit of plastic. As a treat :)

[–] FireRetardant 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Bioaccumulation concentrates more pollutants the higher up the food chain you go. It is part of why most meat we eat comes from vegetarian animals. The fish we eat are often predatory so common advice is the keep the smaller and younger ones that are still big enough to be worth filleting. You don't actually want to eat a trophy sized fish because they've accumulated more pollutants. Trophy sized fish are better off being realsed, they are often good breeders and help keep healthy population numbers.

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[–] TragicNotCute 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prion diseases are scary shit and not to be fucked with.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Terrifying. Prion diseases are one of those things that I wish I had never learned about.

[–] Diplomjodler3 22 points 1 day ago

OK, mate, I have good news and bad news. The good news: we're having a feast and you're the guest of honour. The bad news: you need to stop taking your meds for a few days.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The fact that they used ashley graves for this meme is killing me

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If I'm dead, I absolutely would have no quarrels with people eating my body. Nothing to complain about since I hold no beliefs that when I die, my body needs to be intact for me to go to a heaven like place.

Also, who cares what any family members would think. It's my body, not theirs. If I don't mind people nibbling on my corpse, then I'd hope any family that cares about me is able to respect that wish.

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[–] MeaanBeaan 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Dupree878 6 points 1 day ago

Which is different from Kuru but the effect is the same

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

idk man I think the mental gymnastics go the other way around here. You have to make a shit load of assumptions to consume human flesh safely and ethically:

  • the person being eaten consents to their body being eaten
  • the person has no family or each and every one of their relatives consents and is totally ok with their loved one's body ending up in a casserole
  • the person has no diseases that can be transmitted by consuming some or all parts of their body: prion disease (brain), AIDS, hepatitis and loads other blood-transmitted illnesses, to name a few obvious ones
  • there are no drugs or medications in the person's body that could be absorbed into your system (regurgitated meth, yummy!)
  • you have the means to effectively and safely process or cook the body yourself or we set up an entire new industry around mass human body consumption which sounds like the plot of a Stephen King novel tbh

As some have pointed out here, if eating human meat is your only available choice in an extreme life-or-death survival situation, it would have to do, but unless you also have the means to carve up and cook the body, you're actually going to consume more energy digesting the raw flesh than what you're getting in return. Humans make for rather poor food overall, that's a fact. I would back this up with some evidence but I don't feel like being put on a list for looking up the nutritional contents of human bodies lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

the person has no family or each and every one of their relatives consents and is totally ok with their loved one's body ending up in a casserole

Assuming your first condition is already met then nah, a person's own wishes as regards their own body ought to supersede those of anyone else

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[–] CitizenKong 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

When the German cannibal Armin Meiwes was on trial, it was actually a legal conundrum. Meiwes' victim had explicitly consented to being killed and eaten, even dictating how he wanted to have it done to himself. So was it murder or more of a convoluted version of assisted suicide ("killing on demand" is the legal term in Germany)? He was eventually convicted of manslaughter and got a prison sentence of eight and a half years, a few years later changed to a sentence for life.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"How would you feel if someone ate your body?"

Would I be dead? I wouldn't care then, how could I? Go ahead, make more use of the body.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In survival situations I don't see it as that much different than organ donation.

[–] Diplomjodler3 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As long as I was already dead when someone decides they want to eat it, I'm fine with that.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

ey gonna be honest, i wouldn't want to eat human flesh, even when im starving.

however if my dead body can save someone's live then they gotta do what they gotta do. it's not like i need it anymore

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You haven't eaten ass until you've eaten corpse ass

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

found the Loathsome Dung Eater's lemmy account

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Endocannibalism - eating people from your own group -has been practised as a respectful part of funerial traditions by a handful of cultures across the world and may have been more widespread in prehistory.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prions are a big problem for cannibalism since they resist high temperature. So they're still deadly even if the "meat" is well cooked. That said, Bones And All was a great film about cannibalism. And it was romantic, in a fucked-up way.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If anyone wants to kill and eat me, go right ahead

It'll be nicer than dying alone and having my body rot in my apartment till someone eventually checks on me

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My main gripe is that humans don't have much meat on them. It works in a pinch, but the effort needed to eat so far outside of our normal pallette isn't worth it.

That said, I would be in favor of letting nature decompose our bodies more. I hate having to waste so much effort on disposing of bodies, especially once I die. I want my body to get torn apart by animals, not buried with holy rites. Mummification is the only burial practice that seems kinda cool. Cremation seems unnecessary, especially if I can get eaten by something instead. Just take what's useful, chop me up a bit, and throw me in the compost!

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