I think, morally speaking (and probably taste too) I'd be ok about eating someone if my life depended on it.

[EleanorHandbasket]

I was just pondering this as I cooked some bacon. As you do.

Pigs are lovely, I'm very fond, but I've no issue with eating them. Lambs too, and all sorts of other animals. And I thought, woudl I eat, say, a dolphin?

Hmm. Probably. Especially if I was really hungry and it was all there was.



And then I thought, well, what about a person.

And do you know, my brain doesn't scream in horror at the idea. If I was marooned on a desert island for eg, with someone else, and they starved to death, I'd probably be ok with cooking and eating what was left of them. And in fact, if someone else did the butchering bit, I'd probably chow down fairly happily.



I've never really thought about it before. But there you go.

AIBU?

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

I couldn't eat a human. They just don't look tasty tbh.

I have seen men I would cover in chocolate but I don't think that's the same



I think vegetarians would have to eat the humans hair or something. I'm not sure. Going from vegetarian to cannibal is a huge jump

[Alisvolatpropiis]

We taste like port apparently sp there's a tribe in Papa New Guinea/Amazon (could be wrong geographically speaking) who had cannablistic tendencies in days of old, their word for human flesh translates as "long pork" apparently.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

*pork! Not port.

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

I could settle for tasting like Port but not pork

[WillYouDoTheFandango]

I started this conversation on a very slow day at work once. Everyone looked at me like this and said of course they wouldn't and that I was disgusting. I told them they were all liars and they didn't have my permission to eat me should the situation arise.

I would eat anyone of you if I had to and I could do the butchery myself too. I worked in a lab for a long time working with hearts/stomachs and have no squeamishness left in me.

[pigsDOfly]

I think it rather depends on the relationship to the person as well. I think a lot of MNs would be willing to kill and eat their MIL whether they were starving or not.

Not sure I could eat the dog. Twould feel like eating one of the DC. Certainly would have difficulty killing anything.

[pigsDOfly]

I think it rather depends on the relationship to the person as well. I think a lot on MN would be willing to kill and eat their MIL whether they were starving or not.

Not sure I could eat the dog. Twould feel like eating one of the DC. Certainly would have difficulty killing anything.

[Slambang]

You have my permission to eat me if I'm dead first.

Not bovvered.

[MoreBeta]

For some reason I was thinking about this related question the other day:

If I were starving could I bring myself to lop off say a hand or a leg (suture the wound to stop the bleeding obviously) and in effect eat part of myself to keep the rest of myself alive?

Yes I do really think about stuff like this sometimes.

[VerySmallSqueak]

What conclusion did you come to MoreBeta ?

[MoreBeta]

Logically speaking I thought that it would save my life - my hand/leg is surely just as good to eat as that of another person and have the same nutritional value.

Practically speaking I thought the actual operation of removing the limb and suturing it might be life threatening though.

I have read of people doing their own amputations in extreme circumstances so maybe it is possible.

[VerySmallSqueak]

I don't suppose it would really practically work, More. You'd already be in a weakened state to even consider it.

I think I would eat pretty much anything if it was digestible.

(pretty much do really with my standard of cooking )

[MrsKoala]

I don't get the ick factor about this subject (i've come to the conclusion i'm defective, with something missing - as i have no ick about bodies, or fluids in any way). I don't think i'd even wait to be starving. Peckish would be enough for me to be eyeing up my fellow passengers. And they wouldn't have to be that dead either.

[Morloth]

yamsareyammy 'No, I would rather die.'

Egggggselllent...

[zonetwo]

Depends who it is I think. Doesn't cannibalism send people mad? Think I read that once, no idea if it's true.

[MusicalEndorphins]

No. I just asked dh and he also said no.

[Eastpoint]

Yes I could & I think I might find it easier than eating crickets, locusts or beetles. I had to eat something really scary looking in Japan once & I felt sick with every mouthful.

[mrssprout]

I think it's hard to know exactly what you would be able to do in a life & death situation. My Pa was a POW & said the men who survived tended to be the ones who could put aside their usual feelings to food & eat whatever could be found eg: the bugs in the handful of rice given, the commanders dog that got too close to the prisoners boiling the rice one day. All sounds a bit yuck when you are sitting in your home with a kitchen with food available but very different if you are living through the situation. Sitting here now I can't imagine eating a person but if it was a choice of do that or die then a survival instinct may very well kick in & I might do it. On a lighter note this thread would be a very good dieting tool, I had been planning to go get a snack.......now maybe not.

[yamsareyammy]

Lay off me people!

[ImTooHecsyForYourParty]

No, no, it's good. You're a hero.

When the apocalypse comes, you and all those who couldn't possibly chow down on a slice of Mrs Jones Next Door and would rather die will be rounded up and fed to the rest of us.

win win.

[yamsareyammy]

[ConfusedPixie]

I'm a veggie. I would if it came down to it. To mer it's like the ridiculous "if you were stranded I a desert island, would you eat meat?" Question that many people seem to think is pertinent to ask veggies if you needed food, you'd eat it.

[TheCraicDealer]

It's long been suspected that the first colonists to America turned to cannibalism, but they recently found proof. I'm a bit less up for it when you see the face of a 14 year old looking back at you, like in that reconstruction. And the fact that they probably picked her because she had no other relatives left to argue....SAD FACE.

Some of the OP sounds like a Hillaire Belloc poem-

"Pigs are lovely, I'm very fond,
Cows are cute (and sometimes spotty)
Although Human flesh, I'm told,
Would send me rather dotty"

[1Veryhungrycaterpillar]

If it was apocalypse I don't think I'd want to live, you can eat me if you like, just wait till I'm already dead though