Lets hear your takes lemmy:

Eating rich people. Cringe? Yes/No

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The phrase makes me cringe, the message doesn’t. I think it’s because I’ve seen it being misused by people who don’t know what they’re talking about, most likely.

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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        Fun fact: This is pretty much a myth! There is only one case of a prion disease being transmitted via cannibalism in humans - Kuru. It’s only contracted by consuming the brain matter of an infected individual, and it’s only ever occurred in one group - the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, who practiced funerary cannibalism. It’s been eradicated since 2009.

        The danger of contracting a prion gets trotted out all the time as justification for cannibalism being bad/wrong, and it just isn’t a factor. The truth is that human cannibalism is, except for one single (and incredibly tragic, so many child deaths resulted from this freak outbreak) instance, fine. And avoiding the consumption of brain tissue mitigates even that one impossibly rare risk.

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    I mean. Say what you want but I think people are taking it too far with this stuff. It’s not exactly a trend, one guy did it acting alone almost 2 weeks ago now and as far as I know there hasn’t even been an attempt at a copycat let alone any sort of movement.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
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      I hope this trends instead of wall street bets. The rich need to be genuinely afraid. They’ve taken so many of our lives, so we must take theirs. Wealth cannot protect them from the end of civilization.

      • Donkter@lemmy.world
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        Oh I hope so too. It’s still early so there’s a chance, but the way it’s going it’s sadly looking like an isolated incident.