What’s for donner?
Today, human meat is on the menu.
The Donner party is famous because they chose to eat fallen members
of their party as they braved the Oregon Trail rather than die of
starvation and exhaustion. It’s said that almost all the few that
survived went mad from the traumatic ordeal of eating human flesh.
It wasn’t a game to them.
To most of us the thought of eating another human being is one of
the most disgusting things we can imagine. Books, movies, even pop
culture deals with the terror of cannibalism all the time.
What are vampires, if not a romantisized form of cannibalism?
… but the question looming on my mind is:
Would you do it if you had to?
I don’t know if I would be able to. There are even animals that
make me shudder to eat. Once, while eating a delectible asian treat
that was one of my favorites as a child, I read that whale was used to
create it.
I threw up, and have never been able to eat them since.
However, I wasn’t starving, my life wasn’t on the line, and really,
I’ve never truly known hunger. As horrifying as it sounds, I can’t
bring myself to rule out the possibility that I might succumb to
hunger, even knowing that I might go insane from the guilt later on.
I can’t rule out anything that would happen in such a state of duress.
Especially if it was someone I didn’t know. Especially if they were already dead.
