Comments on: TV hosts turn cannibal for their audience

By: Pluytje

Pluytje — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:08:00 +0000

Just for the record and in reply to everyone saying it was a hoax. I just heard one of the 2 guys on the radio and he was very adamant that it was NOT a hoax. He sounded quite upset that everybody was suddenly assuming it was, though he was also surprised about all the international fuss.
I’m inclined to believe him though, the channel was very clear about that donor show being a hoax, so it doesn ‘t make sense for them to deny this now if it were the same situation.

By: D Wyatt

D Wyatt — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:25:00 +0000

Disgusting to say the least. The comments from the usually educated folks on here are vile as well, jokes or not. A piece of a mans ass eaten on tv should be stomach turning to anyone without mental disorders. Looks like I wont be having breakfast after all.

Everyone should just go ahead and watch the movie Idiocracy, while reading the book 1984 and listening to the audio book of soylent green….to prepare for the immediate future.

By: Herman Budde

Herman Budde — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:27:00 +0000

I suppose you’d have to be Dutch to remember the dead giveway clue:
Last year’s “Great Donor Show” came from the same broadcaster.

And I personally think this is an awesome way to put “Xmas animal bingeing” into perspective ;-)

By: zebbart

zebbart — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:19:00 +0000

That is my justification for eating fish, as well as deer and other game, but not farmed meat. I still prefer to avoid fish though because of overfishing and the waste killing involved.

By: Max Dohle

Max Dohle — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:58:00 +0000

I can report you from the Neteherlands that is was all a hoax.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:28:00 +0000

One thing that I’ve had to constantly push back against over the last 28 years is baseless assumptions about why I don’t eat land critter. Just don’t. As it happens, pescetarian best describes how I eat. No more, no less.

I don’t eat mammals due to squick factors. Ethics be damned.

Also, whales are mammels.

By: Eric Betts

Eric Betts — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:24:00 +0000

It’s the other other other white meat

By: robuluz

robuluz — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:06:00 +0000

If sustainability is part of the justification for the diet, seafood gets complicated fast.

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:57:00 +0000

Hey tubacat, remember me? We met the other week at that bar…

/creepy

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:54:00 +0000

There is also the additional factor that as most seafood isn’t farmed it can be argued that the animals have lived “free” and “natural” lives. Of course other problems arise from this, such as overfishing, but its as “free range” as meat can be.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:22:00 +0000

I’m not terribly surprised that this is a hoax. Usually, when someone refers to “meat”, they’re talking about muscle tissue, and unlike fat (which is removed from people surgically all the time, sometimes in large quantities; remember Fight Club), skin (excess skin is common in people who have lost a lot of weight), and even some organs (you can remove quite a lot of a healthy liver and have it grow back), there really isn’t any superfluous muscle tissue to speak of, even in bodybuilders, and it’s very difficult to remove some without impairing regular body function. I heard an interview of these people on the Beeb, and I found it very odd that they didn’t address the basic question that almost everyone has: how it tastes. (Most modern accounts of cannibalism are from people that are either crazy, like the serial killer Albert Fish, or from people that really don’t want to talk about it, like the sports team that was stranded in the Andes by a plane crash.)

By: tubacat

tubacat — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:29:00 +0000

I’m sorry, but am I the only person who was literally revolted (as in stomach-turning revulsion) by this headline? I’m not talking about making a moral judgment or concern-trolling. I’m talking about what I would have thought is a basic human prohibition (probably favored, obviously, by evolution) against eating each other.

And if the all the people who said they would like to try this were serious — well, let’s just say I’m glad Boing Boing is just a blog and I’m not likely to meet any of them in person…

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:55:00 +0000

From a Jewish law perspective, though, the prohibition on eating mammals that aren’t cloven-hoofed ruminants only applies to Jews. Although not strictly biblical (they were codified in the Talmud around 300CE), there are Jewish law dietary restrictions in the Noahide Laws that apply to non-Jews as well, namely no eating flesh taken from an animal that’s still alive.

It’s unclear whether flesh taken from a living human would violate that (I don’t know whether a human is considered an animal in the Talmud). Also, it’s unclear to me whether eating the flesh of a dead human (as long as you didn’t murder him) would be acceptable or not.

By: Dr P Fenderson

Dr P Fenderson — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:44:00 +0000

This should be at the top. OH CRAP – I’m not on Reddit anymore…never mind.

By: polossatik

polossatik — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:52:00 +0000

the usage of “Preojfkonijen”shows the ingonrence (intended mistake) of the interweps

By: Art

Art — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:19:00 +0000

This had “hoax” written all over it.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:47:00 +0000

I can’t speak for IronEdithKidd, but I was a pisco for many years. Basically its just a very healthy diet to live on. However if you want to justify it ethically, the best strategy is to use the animal’s capacity for suffering. Most sea creatures that get served up for food are considerably more simple than their land counterparts, and can reasonably be said to have a lower capacity for suffering, and are accordingly a more ethical choice, if your main ethical criteria is reducing the suffering of animals.

Arbitrary, true, but we all draw the line somewhere. Oh, wait….

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:24:00 +0000

“Hi, Dr. Nick!”

By: flosofl

flosofl — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:58:00 +0000

Come now, Concern Trolls gotta troll.

By: Andrew Wood

Andrew Wood — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:43:00 +0000

I’m feeling soylent green about the gills.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:41:00 +0000

I agree, outside of chicken I don’t eat the skin of any animal that I can think of… And even with chicken only when it’s seasoned/breaded and fried.

I want to see what a bicep or quad taste like. I wonder if the glutes would be soft and tasty like filet (assuming you don’t work out and are fairly lazy.)

By: Bubba73

Bubba73 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:15:00 +0000

I’d love to meet the surgeon.

“Hi Everybody!”

By: teapot

teapot — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:09:00 +0000

I’ve always wondered how people can rationalise that killing fish is OK (or at least acceptable), while killing walking meat factories is not. You have to end the lives of many fish to get a week’s worth of food, but you could probably survive for weeks on the meat from 1 cow.

How about whale.. would you chow down on some of that? I hear the Japanese have years of the stuff in cold storage.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:41:00 +0000

Wait wait – is this MEAT or just their FLESH/SKIN? Because the two are going to taste very differently.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:40:00 +0000

That was a Swift retort!

By: mrsoreto

mrsoreto — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:36:00 +0000

This was a hoax to raise awareness of the shortage of organ donors guys, they did this before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Grote_Donorshow

By: Matthew Koopman

Matthew Koopman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:29:00 +0000

Honestly, I fail to see the problem here.
And I’m a vegetarian!

By: hostile_17

hostile_17 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:11:00 +0000

Boys if you want to chomp on each other….. well… satisfy your urges, but don’t be so literal.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Short cut of rump! The best.

By: awjt

awjt — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:55:00 +0000

Almost as low as french kissing your mom in the high school gym in front of everyone.

“Kiss your mom and eat a piece of her spleen.”