Kirt, I de-lurk to offer some support for the ET tale as analogy to human attitudes toward other animals. ETs would not regard themselves as 'cannibals' if some had the poor taste (so to say) to eat human turkeys, always assuming the amino acids weren't toxic. They would be eating a lower order of being, no doubt with compassionate design of the slaughterhouses. The strong emotional response to the tale reveals much to an observer. Any such treatment of other animals requires a distancing to allow violence without shame or guilt. Nazis had their ideology to protect them, as they did their deeds. Jews were portrayed in films as breeding rats. Soldiers have theirs, and slang dictionaries are full of subhuman epithets for enemies. So with those indoctrinated to eat this or that food, like dead animals. Distance is all: superiority, permission from an exalted master in the clouds, or a solemn bow to Darwin and hypothesized instincts. We don't yet know what is the best diet nutritionally or ecologically, but the data come in from those benighted specialists who insist on not taking food doctrines on faith, including paleodoctrines. Notions like those presented here may help ethnographers trying to puzzle out why folks do the strange things they do, and why they stay blind to what is clear to others. Pet