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
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.
Prion diseases are scary shit and not to be fucked with.
Yeah. Terrifying. Prion diseases are one of those things that I wish I had never learned about.
Honestly all that toxic shit is in our food already. There’s a reason it accumulated in the “victim” too.
The problem is bioaccumulation: taking in substances faster than you can metabolize and excrete them. Eating something that has already accumulated something is worse than accumulating it from the same original sources. That’s why you can do suicide by vitamin A poisoning by eating carnivore livers.
It’s also the case that when you’re eating plant-based foods, unlike meat and dairy products, you’re eating alpha- and beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin, which your body can convert to Vitamin A and which don’t cause hypervitaminosis.
So if you’re just learning “Oh, shit, Vitamin A can poison me”, don’t let that hold you back from squash, yams, carrots etc.
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)
The cow can have a little bit of plastic. As a treat :)
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.
Of course, something that eats cows that eat a shitton of plastic, will have even more plastic in it.
But that doesn’t mean that it’s healthy to eat an animal that has been fed (assuming they are slaughtered at 3 years, and ignoring the climate impact, the ethics of slaughtering an animal in its youth, etc)…
41 kg of plastic
I think if you don’t count the culling of baby calves the average age is ~6years so like 82kg of plastic.
Thanks for your feedback, I was guesstimating off the top of my head. On doing some research, I see meat cows are usually slaughtered at 18 months - 2 years old in the Netherlands.
5-6 years is the number I see for dairy cows.
Ah that’s the one I must’ve been thinking of, thanks.
Kuru
I don’t think that can be contracted unless you eat someone with it
It’s a prion disease. I’m pretty sure it comes from eating the brain of someone who had it.
Yes, since its been eradicated, you cannot get it unless you eat a really old brain. You may get a differnt disease.
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.
aren’t prion diseases usually just a thing for the brain? though I haven’t considered the medication aspect… I want to eat a human heart some day, any other things I’d need to consider? I guess I’ll just take the risk with the medications.
aren’t prion diseases usually just a thing for the brain?
Don’t you want to eat the crispy thinking bacon? Your loss. Next thing you’re telling me you don’t want to eat the testicles …
the free meds are just a bonus ;3
the funny thing is I’m being entirely serious. I need a heart transplant and if I survive I want to turn my old heart into burgers and share them with my girlfriend and boyfriend.
This is the future the left wants!!!
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Is there enough substance to turn it into burgers, plural? An average human heart is, what, fist-sized I think? Seems to me like you’d get one, maybe one and a half patties out of that, no? And you probably can’t even use all of it, I’d assume.
I have dilated cardiomyopathy so my heart is humongous. and yea I plan to mix it with other meat
A pure heart burger probably wouldn’t be good anyways. You could mix it with another meat
Would you be able to get your old heart tho? I don’t imagine hospitals give back organs to people
the doctor said I can get it back. though it’d be in formaldehyde and after they did sciencey stuff on it, not sure if its still edible at that point. if eating it isn’t an option I’ll make pendants out of it. cut a part off and put it in a little glass vial.
not the obvious thing of keeping the jarred heart on a shelf, with ominous lighting?
Did we just solve healthcare?
That’s why I eat lots of chicken from the worst methods of rearing when having an infection: cheap antibiotics.
Misfolded proteins can occur everywhere it’s just more fatal if it happens in the brain.
While this is true, the main prion diseases that occur in humans do come specifically from neural matter.
The steps are:
- You ingest a prion.
- This prion causes proteins to misfold in your digestive system, causing more prions
- the spread of prions eventually reaches your brain, leading to a relatively fast mental decline.
I’d try human
“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.
Dead bodies make for poor meat the longer it rests. Which is why people don’t really eat roadkill. Unless they are looking for brain worms like RFK.
I know several people who will take roadkill if they can confirm the freshness by either witnessing the accident or knowing that the kill recently appeared. I myself almost took a deer once. It was a cold night and the deer wasn’t on the corner at midnight. But it was there at 6am while still cold outside. If I had the time and space id have likely brought it home to at least assess the meat.
In survival situations I don’t see it as that much different than organ donation.
As long as I was already dead when someone decides they want to eat it, I’m fine with that.
Yeah, they’ll probably harvest your organs first so that process should kill you before they start eating.
Oh no, not the capitalists!
gurl up top looks SO comfy cozy in her gymnastics suit <3
what
What exactly do you mean by “what”? I think my comment told you exactly what I think it should.
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?
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.
DIY link to the ‘Patience My Ass I’m Gonna Kill Something’ cartoon.
Avoid the nervous system, internal organs that aren’t heart, lungs or liver, lymphatic and glandular systems and you eliminate prion disease worries
When the German cannibal Armin Meiwes was on trail, 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.
I see the issue more with relatives, who (today) usually would suffer even more if their loved one’s body is eaten by other people.
This reminds me that I don’t understand normal people
The fact that they used ashley graves for this meme is killing me
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.
Yea just dont eat the brain you should be fine
the higher the net worth the richer the backstrap
Kuru
Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Which is different from Kuru but the effect is the same
nomnom mlem :3 <3
Heh, my partner and I have already had the, “I don’t seek it out, but if we’re life-and-death stranded and you go first, sorry, you’re provisions now” conversation.