Convo from FB
Friend of mine on FB, in the thread about what dog meat would taste like, said:
"Tastes like chicken.. Well, more like venison.. But the Koreans would spice it up with kimchi juice so you couldn't really tell what it tasted like..
I think the tradition was to "recycle" old dogs instead of burying of incinerating them.. Protein was in short supply and very expensive.. There were a number of older folks who had rickets from growing with minimal protein and calcium.. (This was 1968)"
Me: Efficient use of resources. I approve. Burying dead animals always seemed like such a waste to me, unless the meat was somehow tainted. Plus, when done in that way it's a sign of respect. "You're still useful to me, even in death." Whereas burial has always seemed to be like taking out the garbage, and graveyards are just glorified landfills. Humans should be recycled as well.
Cannibalism is not a great idea, for the health risks (minimal if you avoid eating the brain, but humans are just so full of other icky things). Plus the bones still remain behind. Embalming the dead before burial is like turning your food scraps into plastic before throwing them in the garbage, it just adds to the wastefulness of the act. I vote for something called Resomation. Basically, you use hot water in a special device that essentially uses heat and pressure to dissolve the corpse into a liquid, bones and all.
My vote for what to do instead of burial, as a culture, is use Resomation on the corpses, and then watering a tree or garden with the resulting liquid (done right, the liquid doesn't stink). Garden would mean cannibalism by proxy, but a tree is like a living memorial to the person, and provides shade, habitats for animals, a place for kids to play, and more. This was cross-posted from https://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/325120.html
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"Tastes like chicken.. Well, more like venison.. But the Koreans would spice it up with kimchi juice so you couldn't really tell what it tasted like..
I think the tradition was to "recycle" old dogs instead of burying of incinerating them.. Protein was in short supply and very expensive.. There were a number of older folks who had rickets from growing with minimal protein and calcium.. (This was 1968)"
Me: Efficient use of resources. I approve. Burying dead animals always seemed like such a waste to me, unless the meat was somehow tainted. Plus, when done in that way it's a sign of respect. "You're still useful to me, even in death." Whereas burial has always seemed to be like taking out the garbage, and graveyards are just glorified landfills. Humans should be recycled as well.
Cannibalism is not a great idea, for the health risks (minimal if you avoid eating the brain, but humans are just so full of other icky things). Plus the bones still remain behind. Embalming the dead before burial is like turning your food scraps into plastic before throwing them in the garbage, it just adds to the wastefulness of the act. I vote for something called Resomation. Basically, you use hot water in a special device that essentially uses heat and pressure to dissolve the corpse into a liquid, bones and all.
My vote for what to do instead of burial, as a culture, is use Resomation on the corpses, and then watering a tree or garden with the resulting liquid (done right, the liquid doesn't stink). Garden would mean cannibalism by proxy, but a tree is like a living memorial to the person, and provides shade, habitats for animals, a place for kids to play, and more. This was cross-posted from https://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/325120.html
You can comment either here or there.