Am I a cannibal?

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This question has roots in my childhood. We grew up on a little farm. Every spring we got piglets. Every fall they went in the freezer. Cold, hard facts of farm life.

Every spring I told myself I would not fall in love with them. Every year I did. They are so smart and so loving. They were my babies. My friends. Part of my family. I would spend hours with them. Talking with them. Playing with them. Grooming them. (Pigs like to be clean despite stories to the contrary) I would put ribbons on their tails and one time, yes, I even "put pearls before swine". (Matthew 7:6) My mom wasn't very happy I put her pearl necklace on a pig but at least they weren't real pearls and Mary the pig looked absolutely beautiful.

Every fall I would be heartbroken. I would cry for days (I even start to cry just writing this. I know, I can be such a girl sometimes but whatever.) AND I -refused- to eat pork. I just couldn't. The idea made me sick to my stomach. It would have been like eating my own siblings. (Tho sometimes the idea of roasting my evil, middle sister has crossed my mind)

In my very late teens I would start to eat an occasional slice of bacon BUT I made sure it did not come from any farm around that I knew of. Like somehow I could justify it , if it was a pig I didn't know. And now in my 20's I will eat pork at Christmas dinner and on other rare occasions but I actually loathe my own hypocrisy for it.

The other part of this is actual pig DNA. It is surprisingly close to human DNA which is one of the reasons why they can use pig organs in human transplants.(<---Transplant Article) That personally just weirds me right the fuck out.

And after eyeing the pack of sausage in the freezer, it just makes me wonder, Am I a cannibal?

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

Here's a thought. People like pork because they rarely see a real pig. You see thousands of lambs playing in fields or cows grazing, but pigs are almost a mythical creature. Most of the pork we eat in the UK comes from a couple of regions in the east and pig farms are rarely visable from the road.

People don't associate pork with animals as much as they do with other animals. Put a whole pig, head and all on a BBQ and everyone starts drooling, do the same with a calf and it's a different story.

Perhaps deep down we really want to eat each other. But no, pork doesn't taste like human. Human meat is very salty and closer to a fatty ham.

Beckybooboo · Accepted Answer

I feel your pain. When I was ten, my dad bought four baby ducks and they became my pets. They instantly imprinted on me. When I found out he planned on eating them, I threw a fit! He ended up giving them to a guy he worked with. That also pissed me off! I wanted to keep them but my dad said, "unless they get jobs to support themselves or I eat them in the next couple months, they're of no use to me"! Tough love 😔

Twodogs0525 · Accepted Answer

No, you're not a cannibal. You're an alcoholic narcissist. I have never eaten anything that I had a personal connection with, except maybe my dog, Tippy but I think Dad was just kidding. Have you ever been sexually assaulted by your farm animals? I had a friend in high school that worked at a dairy farm and they also bred horses. He told me that two breeder horses would constantly mount him! Then he heard about a farm hand that sued a farmer for a ton of money in Texas for the same reason but my friends lawsuit didn't go anywhere. I actually applied several times to work on that farm after my friend quit but unfortunately, they didn't hire me.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Accepted Answer

Thank you for this sneak peek at this intimate conversation between your superego and your id, this exhibitionism feels nice to me the way your narcissism feels nice to you. It's a fair trade in my eyes.

I don't know what's the ETA of your guilt, I suppose your id won the fight but not totally, superego is still there pointing fingers at your hypocrisy indeed.

Good luck with this internal debate !

James The Foodie · Accepted Answer

You’re not a cannibal. Cannibalism means eating members of your own species, and humans and pigs are biologically different species, even if our DNA is relatively close. 🐷

What you’re really feeling is grief, empathy, and moral tension. You loved those pigs like family, so eating pork feels like a betrayal. That emotional logic is valid, but it doesn’t make you a cannibal, just a deeply compassionate omnivore struggling with conscience.

FreyaRed · Answer

Morally maybe. Biologically nope. Creutzfeldt Jakob illness caused due prion protein can occur even between different species, when humans consume nervous tissue (Brain, spinal cord) but while eating the same species or genetically close one the risk is very high. That's why most carnivores aren't cannibals. Mother nature programmed disgust to eat own species in most animal brains (with exception of Epstein clientele) because of this reason.

ohsheeT · Answer

Well if you are
All my life, there's been people searching for US swimming pools.
You watch a guy run towards the pool and yell cannonball. In June the water , I guess looking for you

D***You've been to a lot of swimming pools , a lot of the same ones i've been to

I usually don't like swimming pools because they're so dirty. Even after they're cleaned

But I guess the next time I do go to one i guess I'll do the same thing. Let's search for you yell out. Your name is i'm jumping in the pool

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

That’s not cannibalism, but it’s good to observe some form of ethics involving your food. I too was raised on a farm. For my sensitivities, my parents went well out of their way to protect me from the harsh realities of farm life. I have a distinct memory of returning from the chicken coop after collecting eggs to report to my mother that Henrietta couldn’t be found. As she was frying chicken in a pan on the stove she replied, “Weasel must’ve got her,” and i believed that story. 😂😂😂
I do eat meat, but there’s a good chance that i would be vegetarian if i was responsible for killing and butchering my food. At the very least, i would eat meat much more sparingly.

NathanDavis · Answer

hmm, where to start... first of all, people do taste like chicken... not pork secondly... if we're talking about DNA, we do "share" more than half of our DNA with bananas and flies... 90% with rats and 98% with chimps, but less than 90% with piglets, so... when you consider that you share 50% DNA with your siblings!!! anything organic (as in, with proteins) we eat... would make us a cannibal, in part so, I guess it depends on how we really look at it, at this... and one thing we can be sure of as well... those piglets would eat you too, if they had to... and they would do so gladly as well and so... at the end of the day, is all in the family anyway (=

AMS700CX4u2 · Answer

It has long been my contention that the master blueprint for mammals is quite similar with few Amino acid changes in the chain. Having removed a few pig brains for research I noticed the difference in human brains and pig brains. the one that struck me the most was the difference in our olfactory lobes. We have a long nerve that connects our olfactory lobe through the cribiform plate. Pigs on the other hand have no long nerve. Their brains just extend into the cribiform plate. No wonder they are good tracking animals. Why use Blood Hounds when you can use pigs.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I do not like the taste of pork and will usually only eat it if it is processed so much it no longer takes like pork, or if it is cut from a part of the animal that does not taste like regular pork. I think the reason I dislike pork so much is that my grandma on my mom's side had been buddhist for hundreds or tens of thousands of years, so I believe I lack the genetic enzymes to digest pork, since half my gene pool went thousands of years without eating it. It's just like how almost nobody in China has allergies because Chinese people have eaten a very diverse diet for hundreds or thousands of generations.

Shiprex · Answer

This is adorable story of your innocent youth. I can absolutely relate to how you felt toward the piglets and just how badly we treat them as "products" to consume. It's clear you are conflicted about this and it's completely right you are, they ARE sentient feeling beings with character and personality yet humans take advantage of them.

However, you're not a cannibal for consuming them. Maybe cruel for it but since they aren't human and you are porcine, there's no consumption of the same species going on here.

aaron13547 · Answer

Lol we are all just tubes that eat and crap it out. Its ok to eat something that looks different then you... But not ok to eat tubes that look like you do...

Your piggys made you realize this. Its why a lot of people are vegetarian they dont always kill the plant to eat it's fruit or vegetables.

I think its about being grateful for the life and the energy that is going into you continuing to have life and energy.

When people say the bacon was made with love they mean it because we all love the nourishing sweet savory taste bacon has. Its like the candy of meats, if you ask me.

We are all cannibals its about being thankful for the opportunity. All that love (pearls) you put into (on) your piggy made her extra grateful for the time she was aloud to exist. she's as thankful for you as you her. 😉

Apulu_backagain · Answer

My sister eats my brain all the time and she still doesn't have prion, you are safe.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Your not a cannibal and a pig isn't a human although some humans act like pigs. Im from the city with roots in the south. But im not a big pork fan but I love bacon and pork chops. Im sorry you have to go through that but unfortunately death is a part of life.

WellBye · Answer

Same here with my childhood rabbits. Super cute friends, and delicious.

ChicoFromThe305 · Answer

Cannibalism is specifically for human meat, pigs are animals

exitseven · Answer

i heard that humans taste like pork so maybe you are on to something.

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

No, but the late WWE wrestler James "Kamala the Ugandan Giant/Head Hunter" Harris supposedly was !!!

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

To answer your question.. You are fucking nuts! But not enough to be a cannibal.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

If you keep thinking about what you're eating than you'll starve to death, so just shhhhh and eat 🤫

Drumlin2001 · Answer

You groomed them? Is that some weird fetish?

slatyb · Answer

No, you are a carnivore.

Mike_Hum · Answer

only if you're a pig.

Jerre · Answer

I’m the cannibal as I love to eat girls

WilliamPamer446 · Answer

Yes you definitely

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