Why Do Cannibals Eat People?

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To civilized people, the practice of cannibalism, or eating human flesh, is a horrible thought! Yet it was practiced by many primitive tribes and may still be practiced in some parts of the world today.

These tribes didn't eat human flesh because they liked it; they did it because it was usually part of a religious observance or part of a sacred ceremony.

Ancient tribes of India ate their parents as a sign of respect and honor. Many primitive people believed that they could acquire the traits of people they admired or respected by eating them, just as they ate lions to become lionhearted; deer, so they could run fast; and foxes, to be cunning.

Nobody is certain how many cannibal tribes exist today. Some say none; others say that there are still several tribes on the South Pacific island of New Guinea practicing cannibalism.

The rarest disease in the world, called Kuru, or laughing sickness, affects only the cannibals of New Guinea and is believed to be caused by eating human brains!

Comments

We Kill To Eat.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2009/11/05 - 10:18am.

We Kill people to eat.
Back about 8 billion years ago, tribes did it for other reasons.
Human's actually taste mostly like normal meat.
It also has to do with what your diet it.
If you eat only fruit, you'll probably taste sweet.
If you eat unhealthy food you'll probably give us General anaemia.
Which mostly kills us off.
I for one never have never gotten General anaemia, and I hope I never do.

WTF!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009/10/30 - 6:55am.

Cannibals are freaks.. if ne come down my end i wud fuk em up... they are basically zombies...... now a question do you kill for food?

I am absolutely terrified of

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2009/07/29 - 5:21am.

I am absolutely terrified of cannibals i wish to never encounter one. They are not human to me to be able to kill their own kind to eat their friends or family is just wrong. Morally wrong and in common sense it is wrong. If i was given the choice to ever die of hunger of to eat anothers life i would rather die of hunger.How can anyone go through with eating human flesh. When they have animals to eat now they still eat humans. I'd love to wish it was all a myth a story from a comic but it is very much true unfortunately. Makes me sick to think someone can go through with that surely with your mind you are able to think this is wrong they are human just like me why should i end their life! but no they just think that persons life meant nothing they are just food to me i don't care if they have a family ill eat them.

Gives me nightmares to think of cannibals eating someone. Are they like humans? do they hold human converstations or do they just kill all day? i'd like to now that one thing.

Cannibalion

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2009/10/29 - 10:08am.

We are not humyns at all, we are vampyres from Dorathor. I Cannibalion, is the ruler of vampyre cannibals in New York. We are the perfect predator, because we look and act humyn even though we are nothing like your kind. If you have any more questions please ask, and I will gladly answer truthfully for you. Knolege is power, only to the unintelligent. My kind only eat eachother during ritual sacrifice to me or the other rulers, but we always drink blood. Farewell humyn.

i live in ny and i dont

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2009/11/04 - 4:24pm.

i live in ny and i dont believe cannibals exist in ny and if they do prove it to me just dont let it be me your eating

Think about it

Submitted by Frances (not verified) on Tue, 2009/03/24 - 9:21am.

If you are raised to be one you obviously would not frown upon it. I'm vegetarian and often I encounter people who ask me "How can you love without meat!?!" well... the same goes for the cannibols. Your either raised into it or it's something you get use to. Besides... what makes the cannibols so different from those people who be-headed or burnt people just because of their faith?

ok...

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2009/10/27 - 2:11pm.

Amen brother!!! thanks for understanding that my people are just as human like as to those who burn people because of their faith. I myself are a cannibal and was raised as one. Me and my people are cannibals but we have a tradition where we can eat human brains because we believe that it will make us more stronger mentally. I appreciate your understand that we are all humans no matter what we eat and believe in. CAN I GET AND AMEN!!! AMEN

It is immorally wrong. I

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2009/01/16 - 7:04am.

It is immorally wrong. I don't care what religion they believe because there are no other gods but only one God who says "You must not murder." One of Ten Commandments. All things are created by God, and we have free will to believe in Jesus who is Son of God to go to heaven, or don't. All other religions will lead to hell because Jesus is only way to save us from hell if we confess our sins to Jesus and believe in Him.

From Cannibalion

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2009/10/29 - 10:18am.

To me you humyns are just prey to my vampyric cannibals, including me. We shall drink your blood and eat your flesh.

Come on now...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2008/11/11 - 8:45am.

I don't look at cannibalism as a disease. I think to eat another human being you either can't be in your right mind, you have some sort of different disease, your in some kind of deep depression, or you are undergoing various emotions that have been triggered by another existing factor.