Donner Party Cannibalism?

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:37 am

New research shows: Maybe not.

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/a ... 0283.shtml

Always been fascinated with this story, Tamsen was named after

Tamsen Donner!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:44 am

fascinating, i will be watching for the history channel docu. such a tragic story.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:52 am

SnoozeControl wrote: The other white meat.

Sorry. :rolleyes::yh_rotfl :yh_drool :yh_laugh

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:58 am

this is interesting.........American Experience | The Donner Party The Donner Party: The most famous of all the hundreds of wagon trains to start for the far West was the tragic Donner Party.........

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:01 am

Reminds me of those poor guys in "Alive" caught on the top of the world with nothing to eat but the dead.

Who here would resort to cannibalism if no other avenue was available.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:06 am

Who here would resort to cannibalism if no other avenue was available.....i don't think i could.

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:55 am

I'd go for a little rump roast, but it would have to be cooked.

And I'd have to be FREAKIN' DESPERATE!:-2

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:02 pm

lady cop wrote: this is interesting.........American Experience | The Donner Party The Donner Party: The most famous of all the hundreds of wagon trains to start for the far West was the tragic Donner Party.........

This is an excellent production, I've seen it before. It includes bits

from my personal favorite work on the subject: Ordeal By Hunger

The Story of the Donner Party. By George R. Stewart.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:53 pm

It would have to be cooked for sure...:-3 Truth be know if your starving to death you will eat anything to keep yourself alive, if you don't you die..!! It ain't pretty but its the facts.. if the people were dead first and not just killed to be eaten.. I guess food is food..!! Never say never, we are capable of grusome things.. :

:yh_nailbi :yh_sick

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:58 pm

Carla is right, you will eat strange things when you are starving. What's the longest you ever went without eating? two days? Three?

I ate rattlesnake, grasshoppers, and prickly pear cactus on Air Force Survival Training.

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:31 pm

Far Rider wrote: Three days, No food persay, I ate leaf lettuce, wild onions, and squirril. That squirril was dang hard to catch.

lol. But after three days, I'll bet that squirrel tasted mighty good!:wah:

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:45 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: The other white meat.

Sorry. :rolleyes:
I love Breasts. thighs are good too.

hahahahahahaha

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:41 pm

Yep!! If you want to live .. you will eat anything and I mean anything to stay alive.. !! :p The show Survivors is a good example of that on a small scale, those people are hunting, fishing, killing just to eat. It is the only way to stay alive.. basic food and water..!! without them you die..!!

Guess they wouldn't have liked me to be in the Donner Party.. !! I would be looking and my next meal...!! Gross but truee..:yh_drool :yh_wait