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Jan 22, 2022 · Although the knee-jerk reaction to eating human flesh can be strong, the actual morality and ethics behind those feelings are not as simple as they first appear. Cannibalism occurs in many...
Oct 13, 2016 · Cooking and eating human flesh has consequences. Image courtesy of Pixabay, public domain. Cannibalism involves eating other humans, which is not nice, but even worse, it can kill you, too. Human beings have been eating each other for a long time, with mixed consequences.
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Jun 21, 2017 · Once you get past the cultural implications of cannibalism, you’ll find there’s a lot of science behind the consumption of human flesh. IS IT UNNATURAL? Not at all.
Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to describe animals consuming parts of individuals of the same species as food.
May 30, 2017 · Firstly, unless the human meat you eat is properly cared for, you run a risk for catching blood-borne diseases like hepatitis and ebola — on top of an infection risk from gut bacteria like...
Feb 17, 2015 · There’s a good biological reason why cannibalism is taboo in virtually every culture: Eating other humans can make you sick. Specifically, eating the brain of another human being can...
Jan 21, 2008 · Prion diseases, a group of uncommon and deadly brain diseases, can be spread by eating the contaminated flesh of humans or other animals. The human brain is more contaminated with prions than other body parts, though bone marrow, the spinal cord and the small intestine also contain these fatal brain-eating malformations.