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GTA_
Oct 23rd, 2005, 08:09 PM
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food_and_drink)

cat is reportedly served along with snake in a dish called "The Dragon and the Tiger".

One of the major theories for the origin of the HIV virus in humans is the eating of primate meat infected with a similar virus.

In certain cultures, dogs are raised on farms and slaughtered as a source of meat.

Squirrel is still occasionally eaten.


Interestingly no birds are included in the list. If I'm correct birds of prey are considered 'unclean' in many cultures... Some food (sorry for that, couldn't help it ;)) for your thought.
afong56
Oct 23rd, 2005, 08:56 PM
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food_and_drink)

Interestingly no birds are included in the list. If I'm correct birds of prey are considered 'unclean' in many cultures... Some food (sorry for that, couldn't help it ;)) for your thought.

i'm pretty sure that tribal rituals of transition from adolescence to adulthood, regarding the consumption of monkey flesh, was directly responsible for an outbreak of variant ebola in the last few years, and frankly, ebola is a waaaaaaay nastier virus than hiv.

oh, and regarding the hiv theory, isn't it highly likely that the virus was transmitted by a monkey biting a human, thus facilitating the blood transmission necessary???

imho, it's even more plausible than the ''eating monkey flesh'' scenario, and about a million times more believable than that ridiculous "black guys having sex with monkeys'' idea that some fancy. . . :rolleyes:
Ferman
Oct 23rd, 2005, 09:27 PM
"In Vietnam, a 21-year-old man came down with bird flu in February 2005 after drinking raw duck blood. "

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/avianflu/avian-faqs.html
second2none
Oct 24th, 2005, 10:26 AM
OR...

Of all the taboo meat, eating human flesh would probably rank as the most proscribed. Historically man has indulged in the flesh of fellow humans out of rituals, insanity, hatred or hunger, in decreasing order of prominence. It is still consumed by a few tribals and cases of cannibalism have been noted in Africa, Asia and Papua New Guinea as well as in other parts of the world.