11-01-2015, 10:48 AM
I imagine that health problems that result from starving people eating their companions are mostly due to the fact that by the time it gets that bad nobody has much nutrition left in their body. I have heard of something similar when early explorers survived on rabbits, hares, and other small animals during a famine. Everybody and everything was starving and was extremely lean. Today we have all sorts of problems due to excessive fat in our diets but a diet of pure protein with insufficient fat eventually degrades your nervous system.
In general I imagine that any culture in which one group of people had a sustainable supply of other healthy people to eat was a rare one.
Nevertheless there seems to be plenty that is objectionable about early Hawaiian history just as there is about early European history. My only gripe is the whitewashing that Hawaiian history gets at the hands of the pro-sovereignty crowd.
ETA: replaced their with there
In general I imagine that any culture in which one group of people had a sustainable supply of other healthy people to eat was a rare one.
Nevertheless there seems to be plenty that is objectionable about early Hawaiian history just as there is about early European history. My only gripe is the whitewashing that Hawaiian history gets at the hands of the pro-sovereignty crowd.
ETA: replaced their with there