Cannibalism in China?

[hjo3]

I was randomly browsing Wikipedia and found something rather hard to believe in a 1934 letter from Albert Fish (serial killer/cannibal) to the family of one of his victims:

At that time [1894] there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1 to 3 Dollars a pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak?chops?or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it.

Is that true? Were things actually like that in any part of China in 1894?

 

[IAteYourMother]

happened with the donner party and the "starving time" in jamestown

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
happened with the donner party and the "starving time" in jamestown

so thats where you got your username from 😛

 

[So]

Originally posted by: hjo3
I was randomly browsing Wikipedia and found something rather hard to believe in a 1934 letter from Albert Fish (serial killer/cannibal) to the family of one of his victims:

At that time [1894] there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1 to 3 Dollars a pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak?chops?or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it.

Is that true? Were things actually like that in any part of China in 1894?

China? Sounds more like 1984....

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

i would say it is enterly possible

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
happened with the donner party and the "starving time" in jamestown

Yeah... I know cannibalism actually happens. I'm asking if it happened in China in 1894 with children being specifically targeted (and everyone being so cavalier about it that body parts were actually sold in butcher shops).

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Wouldn't really surprise me. I've never heard that before, though.

 

[webcammie]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
happened with the donner party and the "starving time" in jamestown

Yeah... I know cannibalism actually happens. I'm asking if it happened in China in 1894 with children being specifically targeted (and everyone being so cavalier about it that body parts were actually sold in butcher shops).

that is...very disturbing.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: webcammie
that is...very disturbing.

You expected otherwise in a thread about people eating people?

 

[imported_benkenobi]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: webcammie
that is...very disturbing.

You expected otherwise in a thread about people eating people?

SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB?!

 

[Mik3y]

so what? i eat my girlfriend out all the time. disturbing, aint it? 😀

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
so what? i eat my girlfriend out all the time. disturbing, aint it? 😀

Yes. Go away.

 

[Savarak]

it IS wikipedia... some fabricated stuff may or may not be included within reputable stuff... wonder where the person who wrote it got their information about cannibalism in china

 

[Shawn]

yum?

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: Savarak
it IS wikipedia... some fabricated stuff may or may not be included within reputable stuff... wonder where the person who wrote it got their information about cannibalism in china

Wikipedia doesn't state it as fact, it's from a letter a serial killer wrote in 1934. A friend of his who worked on a steamer that went from San Francisco to Hong Kong told him about the cannibalism in China.

 

[webcammie]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: webcammie
that is...very disturbing.

You expected otherwise in a thread about people eating people?

people eating people -- i've heard stories about that so I am not surprised.
but selling children meat in stores??? that is the first time i heard of it, so yes i am very disturbed by that.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: webcammie

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: webcammie
that is...very disturbing.

You expected otherwise in a thread about people eating people?

people eating people -- i've heard stories about that so I am not surprised.
but selling children meat in stores??? that is the first time i heard of it, so yes i am very disturbed by that.

Oh. Well good... I'd hate to meet the guy who's not disturbed by that.

 

[l Xes l]

this is true...

 

[puffff]

cannibalism occurred in china as recently as the 1960s.

as part of the cultural revolution, school teachers were murdered and eaten by their students in celebration. it's not a well publicized event, because the chinese government tries to hide it, but there's a book about it

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de...813326168/002-4276303-7476828?v=glance

 

[mattocs]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
so what? i eat my girlfriend out all the time. disturbing, aint it? 😀

Hey, I eat your girlfriend out, too!

 

[GeneValgene]

if they put dead people in cosmetics, then i'm sure this could be true!

Cosmetics from executed Chinese, paper says

 

[daniel1113]

I don't know about that, but I do know that Albert Fish was one f*cked up guy.

 

[DaWhim]

i've read that in the history book. not surprised. there is always famine in china, do the math, the river flood once a year. this make new orleans a trivia.

 

[techs]

I feel so much better knowing that China, the country we are willfully turning into a global power, is such a highly civilized and decent country.
I just had a thought. Perhaps the Bill Bennet thread and this thread could be combined to lower crime in the U.S. and end hunger in China
🙂

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=52&threadid=1701036&enterthread=y

 

[broon]

The Japanese did that to Chinese and Americans in WW2 also. It wouldn't suprise me if the Chinese did it.