Contemporary Westerners tend to associate insects with filth, death, and decay, and, because some insects feed on flesh, their consumption is often seen as cannibalism by proxy.
Regardless of the geographic origins of the marine mammal flesh, sale and consumption of marine mammals in Taiwan violates the Wildlife Conservation Act.
What makes that measured amplification curious is the inherent limitations of the zombie itself: You can't add much depth to a creature who can't talk, doesn't think and whose only motive is the consumption of flesh.
I've been blogging here on Huffington Post and elsewhere for a long time, and I have grown accustomed to the people I euphemistically refer to as the "Carnivorous Vegans" explaining in great detail why it is that my consumption of flesh means that I am Satan-spawn.
If any of the internal organs smell offensive or exhibit discharge or blood in the muscle, the flesh is unfit for consumption.
Mostly, the culprit is raw flesh from infected animals, not consumption of cooked meat, as is often falsely suggested.
Drenge's lyrical fascination with blood, cartilage and the consumption of human flesh only further backed up the feeling that they might not make ideal dinner-party guests.
Might we conjecture that what made this orgy of human viscera go down more easily was the presence of Anthony Hopkins, with his suave British manners turning the consumption of human flesh into a fastidious gourmet enterprise?
Where other teams, two years out from the 2007 World Cup, were focused on how to win the Webb Ellis trophy, the Wallabies had zeroed in on something far more important: best practice for the consumption of human flesh.
Dr. Diamond described this consumption of human flesh, from either deceased relatives or slain enemies, as a nonemergency practice and not just what a group might resort to in the face of starvation as the Donner party of American pioneers did in the winter of 1846-47.
