The Roam: What Eats Us… Basically Everything

Homeschool, Month 5. We studied cannibalism, the ritual kind and the modern kind we rarely name.

Lithuania during the Livonian War in 1571

I told the kids the theme in advance, “This month, we are digging into Consumption... What we take, what it costs us to take it, and what happens when the thing we made starts feeding on us.” Then I paused and said the word. Cannibalism. Iza said, “Finally. I have been waiting (in December, I asked her what she w…