Cannibalism
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| - | * In [[1729]] [[Jonathan Swift]] wrote ''A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick'', commonly referred to as ''[[A Modest Proposal]]'', a [[satire|satirical]] [[pamphlet]] in which he proposed that poor [[Ireland|Irish]] families sell their children to be eaten, thereby earning income for the family. Although it was written as a satire attacking the indifference of landlords to the state of their tenants and on the political economists with their calculations on the schemes to raise income, the work came to be seen as prophetic in the late 1870's when cannibalism became rife in County Mayo, an impoverished part of the West of Ireland. The cannibalism is believed by many only to have ceased when an apparition of the Blessed Virgin occurred at whe location of the present day Knock Shrine in 1879. | + | * In [[1729]] [[Jonathan Swift]] wrote ''A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick'', commonly referred to as ''[[A Modest Proposal]]'', a [[satire|satirical]] [[pamphlet]] in which he proposed that poor [[Ireland|Irish]] families sell their children to be eaten, thereby earning income for the family. Although it was written as a satire attacking the indifference of landlords to the state of their tenants and on the political economists with their calculations on the schemes to raise income, the work came to be seen as prophetic in the late 1870's when cannibalism became rife in County Mayo, an impoverished part of the West of Ireland. The cannibalism is believed by many only to have ceased when an apparition of the Blessed Virgin occurred at the location of the present day Knock Shrine in 1879. |
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Cannibalism (from Spanish Template:Lang, in connection with alleged cannibalism among the Caribs), also called anthropophagy anthropos "man" and phagein "to consume" is the act or practice of humans consuming other humans. In zoology, the term cannibalism is extended to refer to any species consuming members of its own kind.
Care should be taken to distinguish among ritual cannibalism sanctioned by a cultural code, cannibalism by necessity occurring in extreme situations of famine, and cannibalism by mentally disturbed people. [1] [Apr 2007]
In popular culture
- In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, a satirical pamphlet in which he proposed that poor Irish families sell their children to be eaten, thereby earning income for the family. Although it was written as a satire attacking the indifference of landlords to the state of their tenants and on the political economists with their calculations on the schemes to raise income, the work came to be seen as prophetic in the late 1870's when cannibalism became rife in County Mayo, an impoverished part of the West of Ireland. The cannibalism is believed by many only to have ceased when an apparition of the Blessed Virgin occurred at the location of the present day Knock Shrine in 1879.
