Cannibalism?

If you are anything like myself you have probably wondered what a person would taste like, and then been called "weird" or "disturbed" for even thinking that.

The first thing you need to know is that is would not be even close to eating a nice juicy steak because the area of the cow that steaks come from is the lower back. Because cows walk on all fours this muscle doesn’t get worked very much, however in people these muscles are used to keep us standing up strait so they get used more meaning that a human sirloin would be much tougher than a cow sirloin.

Another thing that would make me hesitate to eat human is the health risks. In the 1950s a tribes from Papua New Guinea routinely ate there dead. A favorite part of the person to eat was the brain, this was bad because of a type of pathogen called a prion.  Prions are misfiled proteins that typically occur in the brain, this is the thing that caused mad cow disease and also Kuru. Kuru is the prion that ravaged the tribes in Papua New Guinea until officials banned and punished those who partook in the eating of the deceased. Kuru was nicked named the laughing sickness and was only one mutation away from CDJ, CDJ is the human equivalent of mad cow disease.

The reason that scientist think cannibalism isn't more common in nature is because typically pathogens are only affect one species, so if you eat a dead thing of your same species and it died of a pathogen there is a pretty good chance that you are going to die as well. Thanks to natural selection, this quickly eliminated individuals who wanted to eat there own species, for the most part.

So basically the whole point of this article is don’t eat a person. Not only is it dangerous, but it would not even taste good enough to make the risk worth the reward. Also, beware of searching for facts about cannibalism on any cannibalism forums, there are some really messed up people on them. (352 words)