if humans ate humans, it would ease starvationbut its donthttps://sciencex.com/news/2026-07-cannibalism-people-alive-humans.htmlFrom ancient graves to stories of survival on the frontier, signs of human flesh-eating turn stomachs, even as they raise questions. Anthropologists have uncovered bones cut up with axes and chops—like >a skull from England dating back 14,700 years that had the meat scraped off Such finds confirm that our ancestors sometimes ate each other, but now every human culture views cannibalism as a final taboo. But if eating kin saved lives, why didn't it become routine?A new study by a Polish-Czech team offers a compelling answer, revealing a gruesome trade-off: a few extra calories now, but a potentially deadly epidemic later. While human meat provides calories—roughly "an average meal" by caloric content—their mathematical model confirms this only pays off under extreme scarcity, such as when the bodies of the dead are readily available. However, as soon as cannibalism spreads beyond a few survivors, the hidden costs rapidly overwhelm any gains.The problem isn't just modest energy returns; it's disease. Humans share nearly identical biochemistry, making each human plate a vector for pathogens. The model demonstrates that the risk of catching a deadly pathogen climbs exponentially with the length of the cannibalism chain.Could humans eat cats and dogs? Yes very much, it removes the worst risks apparent in eating humans. Actually humans cant eat monkeys either for same reasons human cannot eat a human.>A human and a rhesus monkey are more closely related to each other than a cat is to a dog.The scientists show that eating human flesh is like signing a death warrant for disease. They cite kuru as one case—but the same logic applies to any prion: Once an organism serving as food is very similar to the eater, even a tiny dose of misfolded protein can jump the species barrier.
>>538464151Religions like Roman, Greek, Christian, etc. said it was a no-no. Then the world was civilized by the white man.
>>538464151Stopped where? It's still a thing where it always was.
>>538464151Did you know eating pigs is cannibalism?
>>538464151White people have immunity to Kuru because our Scythian ancestors developed a natural selection resistance to it by practicing ritual cannibalism for religious rites. If you’re a real European then you should find you have immunity to human flesh induced prion disease on your genetic testing.
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