(July 25, 2013 at 3:49 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Well that's a little disturbing. No, it's not a little disturbing. It's very disturbing. Who the fuck thought this cannibalism was a good idea? Especially when it's like not even cut up into meaty chunks or anything. It's just the whole thing in a bowl. Who the fuck would eat that?
The human placenta is considered a health restorative in traditional far east medicine, so I guess actual fetus is even better.
It's no secret that in pre-modern societies, cannibalism becomes rampant whenever there were femines. In China's history, there were certainly many episolds of extreme femine. The frequency of femine in china actually rose sharply from 1500 - 1950, from about one every 5 years in 1600 to more than one major femine somewhere in the country every year in 1800s. So the practice of cannibalism must be closer to the surface of chinese social conscience than societies which have been free of extreme femine for much longer.
