Food Sharing

Food Sharing

 The Mani people are very giving to those around them and are very social beings.  As an example, when the food is done after a large game they will share it with all of their family from every hut.  Usually they burned the meat in an open space, with all family members around the fire, waiting and eager to finish the food.

In Mani society, they are very friendly and believe in kindness to others or more among equals. Sharing the results of hunts and other food among members of the group, regardless of who had caught or gathered the food and who had not.

They believed in their own type of karma.  Those who have food willingly share with those who do not. They should not let others starve but help them when they are not able to hunt.  So if the Mani people were able to get a game and the Mani people would not, they would share with them.  Human beings in this kind of environment need not worry much or often about food because it is naturally plentiful throughout the year in most years.

 Observation of food-sharing among members of a group reveals that people gave others the best part of what they had caught or found. If the food was a hunted animal, they would share with others the meatiest portions. The hunters kept for themselves only the head and the back portions with the least meat on it