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I'll never look at street food quite the same way next time I'm in Brazil
If the number of victims was as high as ten, and assuming each victim yielded an average of 30 kilos of usable "meat," and that each empanada used 100 grams of meat, that means that around 3000 or more human pies were served up...yum!
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/15/world/amer...index.html
Brazilian police arrest 3 on suspicion of murder, cannibalism - CNN.com
By Shasta Darlington, CNN
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Brazilian police have arrested three people suspected of killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their remains to make stuffed meat pies sold in the northeastern town of Garanhuns.
The three suspects -- 51-year-old Jorge Beltrao Negroponte, his wife, Cristina da Silveira, and his mistress, Bruna da Silva-- were arrested Wednesday and have confessed to the crimes, the police said on local television.
Interviewed behind bars, Negroponte told SBT Television that he followed the instructions of voices in his head.
"I did certain things for purification, to protect people and deliver them to God," he told SBT on Sunday.
He confirmed that he and his two companions ate the flesh of the women "to purify them."
Police said the suspects lured the two young women to their house by offering them jobs as a nannies.
Authorities were first alerted to the situation when the suspects tried to use the credit card of a woman who had disappeared.
According to Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, a 5-year-old girl living with the suspects showed the police where they could find the remains of the bodies. The remains of two women were found buried in the backyard of the house, police said.
Police said they believe the girl is the daughter of another woman who disappeared in 2008.
According to the newspaper report, Negroponte's wife was known in the town for her meat pies. During the police deposition, she said she stuffed them with human flesh and sold them to neighbors, schools and hospitals.
Police believe the number of victims could be greater than 10.
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RE: I'll never look at street food quite the same way next time I'm in Brazil
(04-16-2012 04:56 PM)Kona Wrote: They eat people all the time down in New Guinea, Marshall Islands and Micronesia.
I used to mess with this Marshallese girl. She told me that at her grandpa's funeral they cooked a part of his body and everyone ate a little. It turns out that's a common thing for some of them.
There's a big government conspiracy about folks from there having all kinds of diseases because of nuclear bomb testing. There's a lot of people that think the strange ailments actually come from the cannibalism at funerals.
That's food for thought.
Aloha!
Am I a sick fuck for thinking there's nothing inherently wrong with eating human meat?
Sure, I'm personally disgusted by it, and there are all sorts of practical reasons not to, like the fact that someone has to die to produce it, it may carry disease, and the person may not consent to having their remains eaten. But assuming that eating the meat didn't involve killing anyone, there was no risk of disease, the person didn't have a problem with it, and any other such problems were neutralized, would there really be anything wrong with cannibalism just because it's cannibalism?
I actually don't think so. I think the feeling that there's something inherently wrong with it is just a product of visceral disgust, kind of like the incest thing from that other thread. Maybe it's cultural, maybe it's a hard-wired evolutionary adaptation to keep us from killing and eating our fellow tribe members--either way I don't see how that by itself makes it wrong.
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RE: I'll never look at street food quite the same way next time I'm in Brazil
For those of us that live in places where we don't have to be concerned about eating day to day, we can afford to show disgust at what others eat. Watching travel/food shows really opened my eyes to this. In parts of Asia, ANYTHING that walks, crawls, flys, grows and swims is fair game. Animals that we keep as pets/companions get eaten in other parts of the world. Animals that we poison/trap, that we consider to be vermin, get eaten in other parts of the world. For most of us, only the most extreme circumstances would push us to eat another human (like the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes), and even then it's a agonizing decision. When it boils down to it, human beings will do whatever it takes to survive.
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RE: I'll never look at street food quite the same way next time I'm in Brazil
(04-17-2012 12:36 PM)Moma Wrote: Your girlfriend, did she have any enhanced abilities, physique or accelerated intelligence from all this human meat consumption? Remember if she said everyone ate a little, we know that we multiply every numeral amount a woman says by 3.
So if she said they all ate a little, one can say they gorged themselves on human steaks all afternoon. But they do they say, we are what we eat, hence I wonder?
That's interesting...
You see Moma, and I mean this with all due respect, the Marshallese are a simple people. You don't hear about a lot of nifty gadgets being invented in the Marshall Islands for example.
I googled some things in order to prove my point and not sound like a Marshall Islands hater. The best thing I could find was the graduation rate at Marshall Islands University. It's 3 percent: http://collegestats.org/college/college-...admissions. That seems low.
The girl in question, while staying at my house is the one that put the big metal lasagna tray in the microwave to heat a little up. When the microwave popped, she claimed that in her country they put metal things in microwaves all the time. She really defended this, until I had to concede. I have been to MI myself, however, I do not recall using their microwaves.
If her numbers were inflated, chances are it's not ENhancing their abilities its DEhancing them.
I'm all for supporting traditions, however off some folks might think they are. If you really are what you eat, maybe this tradition should be suspended for a while and see if test scores come up?
Aloha!
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