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  2. Human cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Homicide. Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to describe animals consuming parts of individuals of the same species as food.

  3. Ethics of eating meat - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Various types of meat. Conversations regarding the ethics of eating meat are focused on whether or not it is moral to eat non-human animals. Ultimately, this is a debate that has been ongoing for millennia, and it remains one of the most prominent topics in food ethics. [1] Individuals who promote meat consumption do so for a number of ...

  4. Cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Cannibalism. A slug, Arion vulgaris, eating a dead individual of the same species. Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. [1] Human cannibalism is also well documented, both in ...

  5. Cannibalism in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    About the Mesoamerican towns in general Díaz wrote that some of the indigenous people he saw were "eating human meat, just like we take cows from the butcher's shops, and they have in all towns thick wooden jail-houses, like cages, and in them they put many Indian men, women and boys to fatten, and being fattened they sacrificed and ate them ...

  6. Psychology of eating meat - Wikipedia

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    e. The psychology of eating meat is an area of study seeking to illuminate the confluence of morality, emotions, cognition, and personality characteristics in the phenomenon of the consumption of meat. [1] Research into the psychological and cultural factors of meat -eating suggests correlations with masculinity, support for hierarchical values ...

  7. Meat - Wikipedia

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    Meat. A selection of uncooked red meat, pork and poultry, including beef, chicken, bacon and pork chops. Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals, including chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, horses ...

  8. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human - Wikipedia

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    978-1-84668-285-8. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human is a 2009 book by British primatologist Richard Wrangham, published by Profile Books in England, and Basic Books in the US. It argues the hypothesis that cooking food was an essential element in the physiological evolution of human beings. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson ...

  9. List of incidents of cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Bar-Jonah, who had sexual fantasies about eating human flesh, possessed a journal written in code which, when decoded, was found to contain a number of recipes for cooking and eating children. Neighbours recalled that he often hosted barbecues where he served "funny-tasting meat" that he claimed to have personally hunted despite never going ...