Why do people eat people?

An American zoologist gave up his research on the most terrifying form of humanity in his feeding behavior: cannibalism. This secret of evolutionary theory can have a perfect meaning.

Perhaps the most disgusting person of all time comes from a small village in Wisconsin, North America .

What makes sense?

Ed Gein is the owner of a shabby farm and lives alone, not many people who visit two women, and none of them survived leaving this place: Gein pecked their flesh, fried their hearts.

In addition, he removed 15 people from the local cemetery, covered the chair with leather and made a mask. Gein was inspired by the birth of Hannibal Lecter in a series of horror novels by Thomas Harris (Silence of the Lambs).

Photo documentary of the famine in Russia 1921.

It is also possible that the suspicious title mentioned above belongs to Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo or ' Rostov's butcher ' , the Russians, who murdered at least 53 women and children and ate them after brutal torture.

Temporarily disregarding the crime aspect of the characters, and also forgetting the cannibalistic phenomena in the animal world, the question must be asked: why do people eat people?

If you can put those disgusting characters into scientific research, American zoologist Bill Schutt will be the correct address to find the answer. The biology professor at Long Island University has a rather carefree and comfortable way to study cannibalism.

'In the nature of evolutionary theory, cannibalism has a perfect meaning', which is his scientific point of view. Because it promises to bring solutions to many burning problems of mankind, such as human excess or food shortages on the earth.

So far, Prof. Schutt has mainly studied cannibalism in the animal world. Sand tiger sharks, for example, before being born are assassins: when not yet fully formed into a fish, the fastest growing fetus will eat smaller siblings to create a clear space in the womb. Can this form of barbaric struggle to extrapolate to humans?

Prof. Schutt's research

During the course of the study, Professor Schutt realized that homosexual individuals such as Gein and Chikatilo occupy a very small number of human beings, and fortunately, they are only heavy mental versions aimed at will kill the surroundings. There will be people who believe that the custom of cannibalism is often found in primitive tribes or ethnic groups who are far away from the civilized world, deep in the Amazon jungle.

According to some explorers, the Wari ethnic people in the Brazilian rainforest have a special tradition of burial the dead: to tame grief, they eat meat or dead human bones soaked in honey.But is that true?

Anthropologist William Arens in the late 1970s outlined a serious defect in similar studies: countless explorers went to the ethnic minorities in the old forest and returned to pronounced reports. snails, but apparently there was no one of them in each section, stating that a "forest man" was gnawing at the ribs of the grill.

Even respectable names like Christopher Columbus are not a guarantee of the authenticity of horrifying anecdotes. For example, his record of indigenous people on a Caribbean island grilled the prisoners' hands and feet to eat, was later considered a fabricated fabrication to give them a way of reflecting on Christian civilization, arguing. for acts of making them slaves.

Even Bill Schutt could not find any ethnic group that specializes in human flesh eating. He pointed out some details in Chinese history, recording a phenomenon of Confucian ceremonies: young people invite old people to part of their bodies, usually the legs and arms, eat with porridge. However, the scientist did not specify what the rite was for.

Is this drawing of Aboriginal people a product of imagination?

Once you have faith .

The phenomenon of cannibalism however has many different causes, much related to beliefs . Fore tribes in Papua New Guinea, the third largest island nation in the world, have the custom of eating new dead family meat to keep their souls in the living. Until the middle of the 20th century Korowai nomads in Papua province executed those who were considered haunted by name transmitting through the heart, then cut the meat into banana leaves and then grilled them to eliminate all the aftermaths.

In 1867 British missionary Thomas Baker arrived at Nabutautau village on the island of Fiji to find a new sheep. He did not know that the people there who abstained from hair removal should be executed and eaten. It was not until 2003 that the islanders came to England urging for Baker's descendant to forgive.

In ancient China, the enemy was conquered or well . into the pot, as an expression of humiliation. Chu Dai Vuong, the last of the Thuong Dynasty, thought he was libeled by two men. He ordered one person to be crushed, the other cooked and cut into slices, to be taken to the ancestor altar and then fed three soldiers. Under the influence of Buddhism, such brutal practices were gradually abolished, but in the Guangxi Autonomous Region during the Cultural Revolution there was still a carnivorous phenomenon to punish 'class enemies' , like author Zheng. Yi told the famous Ancient well book.

Belief in unity between body and soul also leads to many shuddering thoughts. Two historical researchers Anna Bergmann (Germany) and Richard Sugg (England) show that in Europe by the early 18th century, some human organs were used to make medicine. The Romans now believed that the gladiator's fresh blood was a medicine for epilepsy. The bodies of death row inmates were sold directly to pharmacies for preparation. Human fat and meat of children who died before being baptized were also made into ointments and pills to prevent leprosy, rheumatism, etc.

Today, in a German museum, Johann Schroeder's master prescription has been kept since the 17th century, describing how to make medicine from human flesh. Similarly, American anthropologist Beth A. Conklin derives from the book of Mabel Peacock in 1896: 'In Denmark, whenever a death row inmate was beheaded, the epileptic encircled the scaffold with a plate in his hand. , ready to drink the blood flowing from the convulsing body of the ill-fated '. Until the 1870s, for example 1879 in Berlin when the Criminal Code was born, it was also common to steal the grave for meat and blood to 'strengthen the health of the sick'.

Starving or surviving?

There is a much more brutal form of eating each other, taking place in most places where there is hunger , when people go crazy because of lack of food and attack their fellow humans to survive. Prof. Schutt stated a few historical events in the United States, when fate took place as a process of finding the end of tunnel light in a laboratory. In 1846, on the way to find a shortcut to sunny Sunny California, a group of 87 people lost in the Sierra Nevada mountains and were surprised when the winter of that year arrived early. The Donner group (Donner Party, according to the leader of George Donner) lost all directions on the snow-covered mountain, and after eating all the horses and sled dogs, the whole group took out their belts and leather shoes.

Another special food that saved about half of Donner's group: in desperate desperation, they ate the corpses of the people who had died of exhaustion or illness.

According to GS Schutt's gloomy picture, is this phenomenon an early warning for humanity today? Climate change in the near future will cause global hunger because of crop failure and saltwater intrusion - and consequently, reenactment of cannibalism?