Comments on: Not that I’m thinking about trying it, but is cannibalism unhealthy?

By: trevan brewer

trevan brewer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:48:13 +0000

i find t hard to belive any of this,we have not severly studied this; i have eaten people before fo the kicks and i have been nomal since then i belive it inth cooking because hmans area discusting breed all around so it makes sense that some get sick but if you eat the rigt parts and cook it good it is no worse than any other type of meat you would get from Mcdonalds if you have any thougts or quetions for me my email is mity_mouse34@yahoo.com (chilish i know) and you can write me on it

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:39:57 +0000

Yes, you can get sick from eating a sick human. Just like you can get sick from eating a sick animal. Deer wasting disease makes for unhealthy eating, but that doesn’t make all venison bad. The risks of things like kuru and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease are known; but that said, taboos and squick reactions aside, there is no sound reason why eating a *healthy* human should be any more medically unhealthy for you than eating a healthy animal. (One might even go so far as to say “any other healthy animal”.) And of course, the adverse effect upon the person eaten is rather more severe.)

Cannibalism is not a taboo because it’s inherently unhealthy. It’s a taboo basically because we don’t want people regarding us as food. We don’t want ourselves or our children to be “the person eaten”.

By: jon morris

jon morris — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:00:38 +0000

Do i have to conduct my own research into the medical benefits of cannibalism? It would appear that i do as there are no articles on its health benefits. She is looking very tasty.

By: jane

jane — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:27:57 +0000

The reason why it must be unhealthy or undesirable in some way, is becasue we evolved to have an aversion to it and only practise it in desperate circumstances, like all other animals. WHy don’t tigers eat other tigers? It goes for most species, they have evolved to not do it, for some reason, a reason that must have a negative impact on the survival/fitness probabilty.
And islanders devouring thier prisoners after war like what the chimps do after a ‘chimp battle’ is not the same as eating your owb species as an every-day food like any other food. One good negative reason would be that any species who did eat their own as a matter of course would soon become extinct, instead banding together as a species helps the individuals within survive.

By: Truth

Truth — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:12:27 +0000

There is not one scientific study that has successfuly argued that cannabilism directly leads to poor health, malformities, or disease. The act of cannabilism, in and of itself, doesn’t make one go crazy, biologically speaking. Phsychologically it can fuck you up. If one can argue scientifically, please provide the deficiencies caused through consumation of human cells. The fact of the matter is that we are all, in some way, autocannabilistic. Therefore how could consuming more human cells possibly have a negative affect on other cells in the digestive processes. You eat foods, gather their proteins, vitamins, and acids, just as you would if you were to eat a cow. I’m not defending cannabilism, Im just anxious to disprove that such acts can truly be a direct cause of illness.

By: science freak

science freak — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:30:42 +0000

in reply to andrew…so we can eat like one or 2 old people and still be okay?? lol Not I :-)

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:58:25 +0000

this is how mad cow disease comes about. In places some still feed their cattle the remains of other dead cattle..including the brains, they just dont tell us this stuff. That is just gross!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:18:26 +0000

The problem being that you have to eat someone who has a prion disease in order to get it, so there’s no guarantee that if you eat someone, your brain will go all swiss cheesey. For example, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs worldwide at a rate of about 1 case per million population per year and most often among the elderly. So one would have to eat ~1 million old people to get it.

By: Mo Lemire

Mo Lemire — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:51:11 +0000

oh dear….please call the research police:
“The Korowai tribe, which resides on the isolated island of Fiji, is among the few tribes believed to still consume human flesh. ”
Fiji?!