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Human Cattle
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Posted By:  rackham Jun 15, 2004 - 09:53 am |       | what if Human beans millions of years ago were planted on Earth for food by an alien species. Look at the Earth now problems with over population maybe its a matter of time before a harvest.
| Posted By: Aldan Jun 15, 2004 - 03:01 pm | | Already been done in both novel and movie form... but I can't remember the name (well, Soylent Green was about eating *spoiler here* people, but it was PEOPLE eating people.
| Posted By: MrB Jun 15, 2004 - 03:19 pm | | Well all i can say is, if i'm going to end up in a pie, i hope i give them the squirts !!!
Not a plausible scenario. Human flesh would have to be a delicacy of unusual desirability to make the prospect financially feasible for our alien gourmet.
Even if our alien friends were of the immortal variety, a few million years is still an awful long time to wait for a decent meal.
What does a few million years have to do with it?
The reason for the thought in this thread that mankind might be cattle kept, is rather weak against reality as it is experienced.
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Soylent Green is an exemplary one indeed, Aldan *s*
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Why millions of years? But...until the flesh develops soft in its turn, of course! Since word of mouth has it the human animal has already stared developing a soft mass in the uppermost physical segment already!
Seek proof? Haven't been reading much, have we?
| Posted By: Aslan Jun 28, 2004 - 01:57 pm | | Moo.
Moo.
MOO.
| Posted By: MrB Jun 28, 2004 - 02:04 pm | | A famous chicken once said (in a broad Yorkshire accent):-
"I don't want to be in a pie... I don't like gravy!"
| Posted By: foxygirl Jun 29, 2004 - 08:15 am | | Come to think about it, there has always been much speculation over the human/alien connection.
Take the egyptians for example: Their pyramids rise thousands of feet in the air, and in the middle of the dessert, when the stone used to build them is found many miles away, primitive people sure could move stuff, or perhaps they had help...Stonehenge is also a prime example. It's in the middle of this big grassy area, and the only stone that matches it is hundreds of miles away.
Here is something to think about. If the theory is correct,about us being some sort of crop, what if whoever put us here, a race or civilization is long gone, and we are nothing but forgotten??
Or maybe the aliens were us. Maybe we had a high-tech society back then, but it was based primarily on organics, which have since decomposed. After colonizing this frontier planet, we lost touch with the more civilized worlds, our old equipment gradually wore out and we had no way to replace it on this primitive world.
Or the colonists (by choice or simply due to being on a wilderness planet) took to less-civilized more back-to-nature ways, forgetting or even banning the old civilized high-tech knowledge (we're a luddite escapist colony).
Perhaps the archaeological evidence of our ancient technology has been hidden or destroyed by an active organization to prevent 'improper' rediscovery.
Perhaps we were a colony from a cannibalistic society which utilized our own bodies as the material for building organic tech & constructions, and we purposefully eliminated knowledge of our history to end the cannibalism, as a political/ideological rebellion.
Hmm... I don't think that seems sensible for us. But maybe for a faster-breeding race.
| Posted By: Aldan Jun 29, 2004 - 07:26 pm | | I can just see aliens sitting around a table...
"What do you want to eat?"
"I don't know. What do YOU want to eat?"
"I know! How about Chinese food!"
"That sounds pretty good. I don't want Mexican food again. It gives me gas..."
| Posted By: iamume Jul 31, 2004 - 03:09 pm | | Is the menu mensa or moron? If the palate favors sentient food how much of a difference would be noticed? We all taste like pork anyways.
How about Kosher?
If there is anything to this human cattle question,our history indicates that our own canibalistic tendencies more significant then the danger of becomming a delicacy in orbit.I'm amazed whenever I observe someone with a canibal bumber sticker.
Is this subject related to the appeal of forbidden fruit?
| Posted By: MrD Oct 16, 2004 - 03:42 pm | | a novel i think was called Man In The Jungle or Men In The Jungle covered a cult that had moved to a planet and were "farming" a certain proportion of their planet for food. not training them, teaching them to speak or anything, just fattening them up and then eating them. the scenes were described in horrific detail that was almost acceptable with what we know of mans beastiality. apparently the world was off the trading lanes and there was no real local livestock and this was their answer to the food problem.
nasty business.
in "V" our planet was being farmed for food after first contact, new storylines are just so hard to find 
| Posted By: Magus Oct 18, 2004 - 05:01 am | | "I never said that all actors are cattle. What I said was that all actors should be TREATED like cattle."
Alfred Hitchock
| Posted By: Aldan Oct 19, 2004 - 07:26 pm | | Mag, that's why they call 'em MOOvies...
| Posted By: Magus Oct 20, 2004 - 06:52 pm | | 
I don't know. Maybe.
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