U_Stormcrow
Crossing the Road
Cows and pigs both, for insulin.
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I've often heard carcasses referred to as "meat", especially during the butchering process. I'm not going to argue semantics. The similarity I was noting referred to the way the raw flesh of a pig being butchered looks similar to human flesh. I wouldn't know what a cannibal's dinner looks like, and other than bacon and the quintissential holiday ham you see in movies and photos, I'm not all that familiar with the appearance of cooked pork, either.There is a difference between a carcass and meat. A pork chop and a rib eye are similar cuts of meat, but even raw the color and texture and taste are different. I know that in some South Pacific languages human meat literally translates as long pig. But I don't think anything in my experience would let me look at meat and guess that it was human based on appearance. And I'm happy to be that ignorant.
The article I originally linked to is actually pretty accurate from what I can tell. If it's unbalanced it's because the source is a publication that specializes in news related to agriculture, so naturally they're primarily concerned with how it would affect the industry. It doesn't actually refer to the initiative as a bill, I added that in my original post because the person I originally heard about it from referred to it as a bill and I repeated it. I don't know if/how it was reported in the regular news media, but as far as I know the only errors were on the part of me and other people who are not professional reporters or journalists.Individual reporters have different strengths and weaknesses. Given its inaccuracies, focus, and self-generated controversy, I'd say this story was written by someone lazy whose research for the piece consisted of reading a press packet put together by the group sponsoring the ballot initiative. It's not balanced and it's deliberately misleading. It's the kind of story no reputable news source should publish.
Long pig probably isn't apocryphal, but that doesn't mean it's a good translation. Especially since the pig was the only other meat animal those people probably had. And even cannibals might want to euphemize when talking about some things.The term is probably apocryphal, originating in the late 1800s, popularly reported in the oft sensationalist media, and ascribed to some unnamed cannibal tribe (location varies) whose language no longer exists, as reported by some far off explorer.
That said, pork is remarkably similar to human in many important ways - one of the reasons its used for organ graft studies. Heparin, and a number of other drugs are derived from pig. Their skin is used in early dermal absorbtion experiments for transdermally delivered medication dosages etc.
The only difference between human meat, & pork is that we contain red meat, & pork is white meat.I've often heard carcasses referred to as "meat", especially during the butchering process. I'm not going to argue semantics. The similarity I was noting referred to the way the raw flesh of a pig being butchered looks similar to human flesh. I wouldn't know what a cannibal's dinner looks like, and other than bacon and the quintissential holiday ham you see in movies and photos, I'm not all that familiar with the appearance of cooked pork, either.
Online...gotta link?I recently watched an interesting video on this subject yesterday night.
I'll look for it.Online...gotta link?
Online...gotta link?
I did not intend to suggest that cannibalism was apocryphal, I meant rather to suggest that the translation "long pig" was likely apocryphal - particularly as the pig was introduced to many of the islands which were later suggested as source for alleged term, by the European explorers who provided the lurid tales which were the source for the reporting. Most likely, the tellers of tales invented the term themselves - stories of shipwrecked explorers falling upon their fellows in desperation are older than the written word, cannibalism is hardly unique to distant savages - as a way of making the story of (allegedly) meeting cannibals more memorable.Long pig probably isn't apocryphal, but that doesn't mean it's a good translation. Especially since the pig was the only other meat animal those people probably had. And even cannibals might want to euphemize when talking about some things.