NationStates Jolt Archive

Would just eating other people and nothing else provide you with all the nutrients you need to survive? For example humans contain no fibre yet we are told that is essential in our diets.

You would also require various dipping sauces.

Why not? It worked for the Donner Party after all.

Fibre can be gone without for a short period of time, I suppose. Long-term cannibalism could nourish the body, since hair can provide fibre (assuming that you eat a lot of it), brains could give you some sort of vitamin I would assume, flesh would provide, erm, something digestible and provide nourishment, et cetera.

For example humans contain no fibre yet we are told that is essential in our diets.The fiber is to keep the digestive process moving along; it's not a "nutrient" in the typical sense.

So, while human meat may provide nutrition, I'd expect that if someone tried to eat only that, there would still be the typical digestion-related problems that can come from an all-meat diet (constipation, diverticulitis, and the like). And don't forget that it would be a great vector for disease transmission, since the germs wouldn't even have to jump species to pass on the infection.

Cannibalism doesn't mean that you have to eat meat raw. For instance, you could kill another human, cook him until he's "well-done", then eat him. In addition, it seems that if you drink liquid from, say, the skull of a human, that's also cannibalism.

Cannibalism strictly refers to the eating of another from the same species; it's not like vegetarianism where you don't eat meat. You can eat just human flesh and plants. Not that I'm a cannibal. :p

You would also require various dipping sauces.

An excellent point.

You could always stir-fry people pieces with a few fresh greens and bits of edible roots you find in the surrounding area.

What I wonder is if the nutritional value of human flesh varies widely between different races, nationalities and ethnicities. I suspect for instance that italians are probably a good source of antioxidants while the japanese are probably rich in Omega 3 fatty acids. *nod*

Two cannibals are sitting around a campfire, eating a clown. One turns to the other one and asks, "Does this taste funny to you?"



Two missionaries in Africa were apprehended by a tribe of very hostile cannibals who put them in a large pot of water, build a huge fire under it, and left them there. A few minutes later, one of the missionaries started to laugh uncontrollably.

The other missionary was incredulous, and said, "What's wrong with you? We're being boiled alive! They're going to eat us! What could possibly be funny at a time like this?"

The laughing missionary said, "I just peed in their soup!"



Two ferocious cannibal chiefs sat licking their fingers after a large meal. "Your wife makes a delicious roast," one chief said.

"Thanks," his friend said, "I'm gonna miss her!"

Well the locals round my way taste of stale beer and cigerattes, but they have a moreish quality to them

*gnaws on Rambhutan*


*gets scurvy*

:(

Interesting thread to read while I'm eating my dinner. Personally I like my human-based protein properly processed, but they don't sell Soylent Green in the stores... yet.

*gnaws on Rambhutan*


*gets scurvy*

:(

Oi, give me my leg back!

Here's an interesting story of Japanese cannibalism during World War 2.
An Japanese engineering battalion stationed at Indonesia used POW and local villagers for slave labor. As the Allies advanced further, supply lines were cut off. This forced the engineering battalion to use the forced labor as a food supply. At first, they would kill sick or invalid laborers and then eat them. However, they were soon forced to eat live, healthy laborers. They would randomly select laborers, strap them to a table (alive and conscious) where they would cut off muscles and other areas of flesh. Then, still alive and screaming, they would toss them in a ditch where they survived a day or two. The reason they didn't kill them outright was because of the lack of refrigeration. So they would cut off some parts of the body for a meal without killing laborer, thereby preserving the "main course."

Survive yes. Live as long and healthy as someone else No
There are various chemicals, nutrients and vitamins that are more abundant in different types of foods. By only eating one type of food you are limiting your nutrient intake that would be provided by eating fruit, vegetables, breads, cereals, milk products and even other meat sources.

All it takes is one important but yet minor chemical (ie Au (gold)) to be difficult to digest when eating human for your condition to deteriorate

The only time human flesh has been cooked as a western steak (in a sort of experiment), it was reported to taste very much like veal.

The only time human flesh has been cooked as a western steak (in a sort of experiment), it was reported to taste very much like veal.

brilliant, i love veal

brilliant, i love veal

I thought it at once intriguing and disturbing that it was reported that it tasted almost indistinguishable from veal, absent any telltale disgusting taste as was expected.

The only time human flesh has been cooked as a western steak (in a sort of experiment), it was reported to taste very much like veal.

When and how do you think Wiener schnitzel was invented?

During WWII.

Nazi Science knew what it was doing.

When and how do you think Wiener schnitzel was invented?

During WWII.

Nazi Science knew what it was doing.

hush, i don't want to feel bad when i go to that restaurant to use a 99cent coupon for a sundae

Human is the ethical alternative to veal.

Oi, give me my leg back!

displays what human flesh is lacking, though. Meat has very few vitamins and minerals, including A, C, D, K, calcium, and iron.

displays what human flesh is lacking, though. Meat has very few vitamins and minerals, including A, C, D, K, calcium, and iron.

I think blood and liver contain some of those. None of this wasteful "I only like the leg meat" cannibalism - you have to eat the whole person.