What's with cannibalism in post-apoc kino? How does it even make sense?

What's with cannibalism in post-apoc kino? How does it even make sense?
You're spending way more time and energy chasing food, instead of just growing some potatoes or turnips.
And in a post-apoc setting, most people are skinny af so there would be barely any meat at all.

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food isnt growing you dimwit

Well, at least in The Road, I'm fairly certain that because of all the ash and shit growing food is pretty difficult, I'm sure there's radiation in the soil as well

Can't grow veggies if the soil is fucked matey boi

humans are naturally meat eaters. we evolved to eat meat. thats why vegetards are the laughing stock of the world. Do you honestly think humans started out growing all these complicated vegetables or just stabbing a big animal and eating it? Apocolypse is a return to our primitive true meat eating state

Your soil ph in the apocalypse is a 9.6 and you need a about a seven to eight max.

ending ruined the movie for me
>whole point of the movie is that you can't trust anyone because they'll either be thieves who fuck you over or cannibals
>Viggo dies at the end and the kid joins Guy Pearce just because he said he's a good guy

Better question, why is there always a dude in a painter's mask?

he might have been a cannibal

It'd be fucking easy as well initially, trick all the idiots to come to you with FREE SOY & AVACADO signs and then capture them and beat them half to death and chop their legs or a leg and arm off and imprison them like the based cannibals in the movie did.

The first people to grow a set of balls and turn cannibal in a post apoc world would literally be the victors in the long game.

I guarantee that you would not have cared who he was until he put on that mask.

Pretty sure ash is good for soil. Whenever there are forest fires the ash is really good for regrowth, it's full of nutrients. That being said, the Road was just hella fucked up cus it's never really explained what happened, but for sure nothing would grow. It was a very vague and unspecific "end" that happened,

people taste much better than turnips. especially boys. they're very sweet. and before you eat boys, you can do ... stuff.

Irradiated ash is not good for soil. Read a book for once in your life.

Well I was referring more to the shitload of ash that would be in the atmosphere from a huge nuclear war, I'm sure it fucks with plant growth.
This article about Mt. St Helens says this
livescience.com/6450-mount-st-helens-recovering-30-years.html

>The ash that coated the leaves and needles of trees in the volcano's vicinity was dangerous not because it smothered the trees or introduced harsh chemicals, but because the ash was heated by the sun, stressing the plants and making them experience drought-like conditions.

This effect was particularly seen in Pacific silver firs, which began to die or die back about five years after the eruption, surprising ecologists. The die-off was also seen to affect a greater number older trees than younger ones, Hinckley said. He explained that this had to do with the rate of needle replacement on old versus young trees, with the latter replacing many more needles per year, and so getting rid of the ash-covered ones faster.

People have resorted to cannibalism many times in the past. What makes post-apocalypse an exception? A desperate human is something that you do not want to deal with on a daily basis personally. And there's gonna be shitloads of them if shit ever hits the fan.

human bodies have exactly the right kinds and amounts of nutrients to sustain you

so i guess hydroponics sets don't exist

>humans are naturally meat eaters
Humans are omnivores.

> Do you honestly think humans started out growing all these complicated vegetables
wild plants grow naturally.

>Apocolypse is a return to our primitive true meat eating state
The apocolypse wont deevolve humans. Only culture.

You're not wrong saying cannibalism would make sense in post apocalyptic fiction. But you are retarded.

appeal to nature fallacy

Just gonna run down to the store for distilled water and soluable nutrients? What electricity is going to run your pumps?

you could pick it up at any garden store. it's not like most plebs would think to loot that either. as far as electricity there's such a thing as generators and if not you could easily create your own wind turbine(s)

The more people there are, the less food there is dimwad

this is bullshit they fertilised fields with burnt jew

the absolute state of this retard. are you implying we somehow didnt eat whatever we found? Literally have always eaten bark and shit alongside anything we kill

yet actual cannibals in africa were unintelligent and not tall and healthy?

It makes sense for The Road, you just can't grow anything at all. People are eating each other and eventually everyone will die and that's that.

Tru

>whole point of the movie is that you can't trust anyone

No, it isn't.

cool it with the racist remarks bud

Read more. Humans have cannibalized other people on several occasions. Hell, most of us probably wouldn't even be here if our ancestors didn't decide munch on their dead tribesmen. In the 1800's seamen even had rules for cannibalism if a situation at sea was that dire.

Because post apocalyptic fiction is about society being annihilated and the fear that results when familiar societal taboos and standards no longer exist, that's why mad max 2 was filled with weird bondage gear and violence and featured a gay s&m couple, and that's why a boy and his dog is filled with semen harvesting creepy chicks and dogs who can talk

And all the toxins and diseases that affect you. Enjoy your prions.

>that's why mad max 2 was filled with weird bondage gear and violence and featured a gay s&m couple
No, that's just Australia.

Is this what leftists are fighting for?

>when it turns out your boogeyman is literally trying to end civilization
It's a good thing you're safe in your basement user-kun

Wow, that really struck a nerve, eh? You know, all this stuff about hating western tradition so much might backfire one day.

You supposedly get cancer from eating half the foods on the food table today so it's not that much of a difference

Do you really think that a starving, dying person is gonna give two shits about those if there's something consumable right next to them? We are talking about desperate acts, not if you want to try someone out or not.

cannibal hunters doesn't make sense, no. it's too much risk for too little reward. if there are so few food ressources that this is the last resort, there wouldn't be enough humans to hunt anyway

however, within a closed group that is desperate, making the choice to kill and eat the weakest members, or the strangers that just joined them? that's a lot more believable, and imho, a lot scarier

>dude we evolved eating meat

>then
if i dont kill this mammoth my family won't survive, as we havent learned farming

>now
what do you have a taste for at the grocery store

You can eat human meat so long as you don't eat brains or anything with nerves.

So a nice juicy piece of leg would be right about nice

Now:

>Hmmmmmm let's drink Soy

Future:

>Hmmm why are peoples thyroids fucked

I refuse to go down on a woman. It's unethical to eat anything that might be intelligent.

I imagine leg would be stringy and gamey as fuck, like you'd need to stew it forever, or braise it.
I don't know where the good cuts would be on a bipedal animal. Optimally you don't wan't the muscles that get the most work.

In most people that would be any part of the body.

>nothing can grow
leaves on the ground
green fir trees

Growing food in a post-apocalyptic world is dangerous. The dude with a bigger crew will fuck your shit up and take everything for sure.

It's like early tribes/civilizations.

Plus if you're growing food that means you're necessarily tied to a single location. In a lot of post apocalyptic movie scenarios you have to constantly be on the move to survive.

>In a lot of post apocalyptic movie scenarios you have to constantly be on the move to survive.
or is it just a plot device?

SWITCH YA BRAIN OFF MATEY

oh that's just an old wive's tale

>all these trannies angry about this post

It honestly makes great sense, how many people are there compared to other large game, one bullet could take down up to 200 pounds of meat. There are hardly any deer now nevermind when every Tom and dick is out hunting them year round. If the world came crashing down tomorrow I wouldn't even bother with game, I'm going right for salted preserved people.

ITS A THEMATIC ELEMENT TO ILLUSTRATE A DESCENT INTO SAVAGERY AMONG THE ANARCHISM OF THE APOCALYPSE GOD YOU CAN'T PRIORITIZE HYPER REALISM ALL THE TIME

THIS ISNT EVEN A "TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF" COMPLAINT, BUT FUCKING HELL YOU HAVE TO EVENTUSLLY CHOOSE BETWEEN REALISM AND WELL EXECUTED STORY TELLING.

Wow

>or is it just a plot device?
Anything that has zombies/infected and bands of murderous rape gangs and warlords roaming the country side is a post apocalypse where you don't want to stay put.
Also most people would be fucking clueless how to actually farm without fertilizers, chemicals, and running water.

Most of the time they don't actually hunt people they just set traps for them or capture them if they come across them

you know you can grow food indoors now right?

>post yfw that basement scene

>now
We're talking about the post apocalypse bunghole.

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