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They eat each other for certain reasons. Or rather, they eat each other. Neanderthals apparently, under certain circumstances, had a particular liking for human flesh. They deliberately scratch, slaughter and devour their prey selected. We hope they enjoy eating it, and that it’s not a punishment. Moreover, we don’t know which woman or man absorbed the human. Maybe all of them. What we recently learned, thanks to research in the Goyet cave, in Gesves, Belgium, is that the six human bodies analyzed were eaten becauseforeigners to the group. 41,000 years ago, welcoming the Other was clearly not on the agenda. This has hardly changed, given the plight of migrants hoping to reach British shores. But let’s not mix them up. In France, we reject them, we don’t kill them – let them live in unlivable situations.
This is especially demonstrated by research published on November 19 in Scientific Reports, is that this cannibalism may have been an act of revenge. This fact calls me into question as a 21st century vegan. What would I do if faced with the obligation to eat human flesh from a possible enemy? I don’t think the question was asked in those terms at the time. As a feminist, I am also concerned by the fact that these six victims were mostly women – thin, small – or children. Therefore they were deliberately swallowed because they were foreigners, women and vulnerable. Easier to catch? Or carefully selected Because prone to? Maybe this is where my anti-speciesism started to emerge. Because, based on what history teaches us, I am afraid to see the beginning of domination taking place in Goyet cave. This is still widely practiced today against the weakest groups in our society evolved.
