SC - Re: "cruel food" (Long)

[ana l. valdes]

Its very interesting, because it starts a hole new topic I am very
interested on, cannibalism. (And I am sure I am (again) throwing a
burning torch here). My point, about the Anthropologist, its a long
going discussion about the existence or not of cannibalism. If
cannibalism exists, states some of them, we should make a difference
between ritual cannibalism and "survival cannibalism". Many others says,
its hoax, as Margaret Meads description om Polynesians sexbehaviour.
I came in contact with cannibalism very early, when I was put in jail
for four years, for political reasons. (Wild youth, my friends). It was
1973 and a plane with several Uruguayan rubgy players crashed in the
Andes and survived through a tough ordaly eating the dead corpses of
their comrades.
Our relatives come to jail and spoke only about that.- Nobody spoke
other things, we were in "national schock". Many of you have sure heard
the story and saw the movie, "Alive".
Since the most of players were catholic upperclass youngsters, the
Catholic Church was due to come out with some explanation. Were all
these people in mortal sin? The Church made a wonderful rethoric peace
and state they were having a communion, because the souls were gone from
the flesh and they ate their relatives. It was a communion and all were
forgiven their sins.
When I started to read Anthropology in Sweden come across with some
medicinal rapports from Nouvelle Guinée. They told it was a sickness
which was catched only by the women by never by the men. They tried to
make genetical studies, but all failed.
Unless...the tribe had a special funerary ritual. They took away the
deads brain, they boiled it and ate it, to have the dead inside, to be a
part of the dead.
The women cooked the brain, but the tabou did they couldn´t eat it. It
was forbidden for women. Only men should eat the boiled brain.
But the Antrhopologs observed and ask their informants about the truth
and they discovered the women "picked " or stole small bits av brain
when they cooked it and ate it right on, also wanting the communion with
the dead.
And thats was the explanation about the sickness. The women ate the
brain raw or semi-cooked, the men ate it only as cooked.
Thats because the women went sick, and not the men.
This story is supported for several independent antrhopologs and
doctors.
In China, for several years ago, a dissident went out with an amazin
accusation. Selom him (the article was firstpage stuff in the major
newspapers), in the worst days of Mao, in several isolated provinces,
people against the ruling party, was punished by being killed and eaten
by the people. The grandmothers love it specially the brain and the
eyes, since they had supposed therapeutical values.
In the end of the 17 th century, a Napoleonic officer was also beaten to
death and eaten by thirty people in France. This was a trial and no one
was convicted. The French historien Allan Corbin wrote a book about
that.
Sorry if the letter offended some sensitive people.
Yours
Ana L. Valdés

H B skrev:
> 
> --- LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 7/6/99 6:51:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > agora at algonet.se
> > writes:
> >
> > << There is all, from Raccoon Stew
> >  (USA) to Fried Cockchafer Grubs, France. >>
> >
> > Have the Raccoon Stew recipe but a quick glance at my 'Dining with
> > Insects'
> > did not turn up Fried Cockchafer Grubs. :-( <pout>
> >
> > BTW, Ana, in case someone hasn't told you already I collect unusual
> > recipes.
> > My current favorite unusual recipe is Deep Fried Honeybee Larvae.'
> > YUMMY!!!!
> >
> > Ras
> 
> Ras --
> 
> Got anything on Squirrel Brains?  I remember reading on the Web --
> several months ago, I was looking up hunting regs in PA and ran across
> this under Small Game -- there was a warning about Mad Squirrel Disease
> (I kid you not).  Apparently there is a tradition (mostly in the
> southern U.S.) that squirrel brains are a delicacy, eaten raw, before
> you throw the rest of the thing into the stew pot.  Recently there has
> been some concern about people (only a few) developing something
> similar and probably related somehow to the Mad Cow disease from G.B. a
> couple of years ago.  The U.S. wildlife Service or whoever was still
> trying to confirm exactly what it was and where it came from, but in
> the mean time, DO NOT eat raw squirrel brains, they don't know how far
> the problem has spread.
> 
> The government rep writing the warning said he could only tell the guy
> who asked if he was in danger because he had drunk a whole squirrel
> shake (whole squirrel in blender, process until drinkable?) that if he
> hadn't already developed symptoms, he'd probably be okay -- I kind of
> thought it might be hard to tell if this guy was acting a little more
> funny than usual.
> 
> PA Game Commission Cookbook on the site lists the following recipes:
> Bear Marinade, Braised Rabbit, Deer Loin Wellington, Fresh Venison
> Sausage, Fried Squirrel, Grilled Goose Breast, Hindquarter of Venison,
> Sigrid's Game Bird Feast.  Ras, do you have these? Anyone else want
> them?  Tell me which, and I'll copy them to the list.
> 
> -- Harriet
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