For those asking if the guy that grabbed Carl did the unthinkable to him in the comic, affirmative. After the Old Yeller ending with Lizzie a few weeks ago, I'm glad they had enough class not to go with a Deliverance one for Carl. If you remember back when the guy in the group was giving Daryl a hard time over the rabbit he killed ("claimed it"), he mentioned something about "them young ones don't last too long out here". Kind of gave me the impression that some in the group might be sweet for little kids
Eating people would be tricky in this story btw. You would probably have to eat them alive if you didn't want to turn and have to eat a zombie
I did wonder if he was supposed to have actually been buggered because they were certainly hinting that he was about to in the show. It certainly didn't seem strange to me that at that point that Rick would cut the guy up into little pieces. God help anyone that molested one of my kids in front of me.
So did The Road. I think they were both exaggerated for dramatic effect. In the immediate aftermath of a cannibalism-inducing apocalypse, the incidence of Kuru or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease (CJD) would be very low. An ordinary, healthy human would have to eat brains and spinal cords almost exclusively for a long time to have a meaningful chance of developing it himself. It would be more in the later generations, where the disease would be rampant. The Walking Dead and The Road are both stories set in the first generation post apocalypse. The Book of Eli is second generation.Denzel Washington's "Book of Eli" had cannibals that got the shakes.
So did The Road. I think they were both exaggerated for dramatic effect. In the immediate aftermath of a cannibalism-inducing apocalypse, the incidence of Kuru or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease (CJD) would be very low. An ordinary, healthy human would have to eat brains and spinal cords almost exclusively for a long time to have a meaningful chance of developing it himself. It would be more in the later generations, where the disease would be rampant. The Walking Dead and The Road are both stories set in the first generation post apocalypse. The Book of Eli is second generation.
As long as it was still first-generation and the "long pork" were butchered properly, essentially kosher-style, such that blood was cleanly drained away and gray matter was cleanly excised, eating the red meat alone would not pose a significant threat, unless the person being butchered so clearly showed signs of infection that the prions could reasonably be assumed to suffuse their tissues.
And the thing about prion diseases, you can't sterilize it by just cooking it at a high enough temperature, or soaking it in the right medicinal marinade. Prions are ordinary proteins, chemicly identical to proteins needed for the functions of life. Any treatent that would destroy the prions would destroy their ordinary, nutritionally beneficial, protein twins.
So did The Road. I think they were both exaggerated for dramatic effect. In the immediate aftermath of a cannibalism-inducing apocalypse, the incidence of Kuru or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease (CJD) would be very low. An ordinary, healthy human would have to eat brains and spinal cords almost exclusively for a long time to have a meaningful chance of developing it himself. It would be more in the later generations, where the disease would be rampant. The Walking Dead and The Road are both stories set in the first generation post apocalypse. The Book of Eli is second generation.
As long as it was still first-generation and the "long pork" were butchered properly, essentially kosher-style, such that blood was cleanly drained away and gray matter was cleanly excised, eating the red meat alone would not pose a significant threat, unless the person being butchered so clearly showed signs of infection that the prions could reasonably be assumed to suffuse their tissues.
And the thing about prion diseases, you can't sterilize it by just cooking it at a high enough temperature, or soaking it in the right medicinal marinade. Prions are ordinary proteins, chemicly identical to proteins needed for the functions of life. Any treatent that would destroy the prions would destroy their ordinary, nutritionally beneficial, protein twins.
Shouldn't this be in the survival section?
Pretty sure there is still a piece of left over meatloaf in my fridge at home. Lunch time is close. I think might swing by the house. For some reason I felt it appropriate to share
I hope that Colt Python will be okay.....I know it's stainless but that doesn't mean anything...Do you think they put a "stunt double" for the Python in the hole???? I mean...Hollywood doesn't hate guns so much as to actually reallly leave that Python out in that hole do they????
I just hope it's okay...The factory wood grips as well...All of that Georgia moisture seeping into the ground...This is just awful...I hate cliffhangers like this...
Talking of eating people and the screen names.
Jeremiah Johnson was nicknamed " liver eating Johnson " for his tendency to eat the livers of the indian's attempting to kill him.