Does the Kilrathi eat human meat?
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Originally posted by Raptor
Is it just my imagination, or do the people in this thread have a Fruedian fixation with the idea of Angel being "eaten"?
Best, Raptor
Tis from the WC3 novel.
LeHah
212 Squadron - "The Old Man's Eyes And Ears"
If I was ever fighting a Kilrathi hand to hand and somehow, by some random miracle or by listening to Basil Poledouris's score to Conan the Barbarian and driven into a blood frenzy, I'd consider taking a tooth of his or something else...
Depending on the mood, I might have to paint myself in his blood (ewwww) like hunters use to, to make themselves smell like animals instead of human.
Depending on the mood, I might have to paint myself in his blood (ewwww) like hunters use to, to make themselves smell like animals instead of human.
It's called Koru, smilar to the Cruzfeld-Jakob ("mad cow") disease that had Britain in an uproar a few years back. As for whether Kilrathi could get it, it really depends on how similar their nerve and immune systems are to ours. Still, it would make the ultimate in delayed revenge, wouldn't it?
I also wanted to say it. It came from BSE, the illness the cows got in Britain and also in the Netherlangds, France and Germany (I think most of you know the picture of the stumpling cow,which brakes together on her way to the transporter). There was a long discussion about it in our news. It can be given from cow to cow via their food which is made of the nerving-system and the brain of other cows.
And it is an illness, which can brake out, if you eat that cow-meat. The virus destroys your brain. You get holes in it and your brain looks like a sponge. If you have it you forget things, have halluzinations and seem to be very aggressive, because you feel threatened by everything. You die very soon, because your nerving-system and brain are destroyed. If another human would eat that human meat he'd also get it. In Germany they work to forbid to let animals eat rest-meat from other animals and from every death cow, which should be 'eaten' by us, they take a little part of the brain to analyze it, before it is sold. Alone in Germany they found more than 50 cases with a positive result in 7-8 months. That meat was burned...
In Germany Creutzfeld-Jakob isn't broken out more than before, but it needs much time till you feel it. And till they know it, how many people ate meat of ill cows. But till today, there's no proof that everybody whom eats that meat gets C.K.. There also was a discussion about, that the human has got a special gen, which changes itself then, so not everybody has the gen and getsC.K., if he has contact with ill-meat. < Long medical discussion >
And it is an illness, which can brake out, if you eat that cow-meat. The virus destroys your brain. You get holes in it and your brain looks like a sponge. If you have it you forget things, have halluzinations and seem to be very aggressive, because you feel threatened by everything. You die very soon, because your nerving-system and brain are destroyed. If another human would eat that human meat he'd also get it. In Germany they work to forbid to let animals eat rest-meat from other animals and from every death cow, which should be 'eaten' by us, they take a little part of the brain to analyze it, before it is sold. Alone in Germany they found more than 50 cases with a positive result in 7-8 months. That meat was burned...
In Germany Creutzfeld-Jakob isn't broken out more than before, but it needs much time till you feel it. And till they know it, how many people ate meat of ill cows. But till today, there's no proof that everybody whom eats that meat gets C.K.. There also was a discussion about, that the human has got a special gen, which changes itself then, so not everybody has the gen and getsC.K., if he has contact with ill-meat. < Long medical discussion >
They really seem to be very resistant. And at the mont the virus can't be found at animals which are alive. They're only able to find it in the brain of death cows.
But I never heard of other animals except cows and human beings (maybe also apes), which/who got it. So the question, whether a Kilrathi would get it can be answered nearly definitely with 'no'. Except that we are talking about the year 2600 or so. I don't think there exists that problem any more. I also never read something in the books about HIV or any of todays' illness. So we can go ut from the thing, that they were healed years ago. Today thatis still utopic, but later...I believe they'll find a way to heal them. And at BSE the way to forbid animal-food cnsisting of dead animals and mass-animal-farms. If BSE dies out, Creutzfeld-Jakob will also nearly die out.
But I never heard of other animals except cows and human beings (maybe also apes), which/who got it. So the question, whether a Kilrathi would get it can be answered nearly definitely with 'no'. Except that we are talking about the year 2600 or so. I don't think there exists that problem any more. I also never read something in the books about HIV or any of todays' illness. So we can go ut from the thing, that they were healed years ago. Today thatis still utopic, but later...I believe they'll find a way to heal them. And at BSE the way to forbid animal-food cnsisting of dead animals and mass-animal-farms. If BSE dies out, Creutzfeld-Jakob will also nearly die out.
LeHah
212 Squadron - "The Old Man's Eyes And Ears"
I agree with your views on controling the feed of livestock, Fishbone, as would any normal human being. However, many cattle ranchers in the US have claimed that the Mad Cow disease is a conspiracy or a hoax because cattle ranching is so profitable. Many doomsayers declair that because so many US rachers are cutting corners and not believing in the virus, that it will eventually make it's way over to the States. Personally, I love meat, so if that virus comes over here, I'll probably end up eating Ramen more than just once a day (like usual).
We never stopped eating any meat. We just stopped eating such burgers at McDonalds. 
It wasn't save enough in our eyes. And the meat we bought not at a supermarket. We looked where and we also bought more expensive meat.
It was new to hear, that you're the first one who bought cow-meat in that shop. At 2 O'clock in the afternoon. It was panic. Many people stopped eating meat at all. I can only say: 'Why should we stop eating meat? If BSE is around, we ate it years ago, as we didn't know anything about it's existance.' So we maybe got it and I really don't want to know what we eat every day and what's all in it. Medicamnts, bacterians, virusses, illnesses. But I like meat. We are all-eaters. Not fruit-eaters. So we eat everything. Not only plants like some people do.
I believe that's the wrong way. It cannot be good for the body.
It wasn't save enough in our eyes. And the meat we bought not at a supermarket. We looked where and we also bought more expensive meat.
It was new to hear, that you're the first one who bought cow-meat in that shop. At 2 O'clock in the afternoon. It was panic. Many people stopped eating meat at all. I can only say: 'Why should we stop eating meat? If BSE is around, we ate it years ago, as we didn't know anything about it's existance.' So we maybe got it and I really don't want to know what we eat every day and what's all in it. Medicamnts, bacterians, virusses, illnesses. But I like meat. We are all-eaters. Not fruit-eaters. So we eat everything. Not only plants like some people do.
I believe that's the wrong way. It cannot be good for the body.
There is still NO actual proof that eating BSE infected meat can lead to humans devloping CJD. A similar condition was noticed in monkeys after infected bovine spinal fluid was injected into their brains (which I don't think would do anybody any good). If it is transmittable by eating it's all a bit late, as it's been around since the late 70s (that we know of).
Bandit LOAF
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BSE'd better darn well stand for Binary Sickness Emitter...