[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Human meat is actually toxic to humans. Though perhaps that's only in the western world. Apparently, all of the additives and crap we eat and drink, and the general toxins in our everydays lives, make us unfit for human consumption. Quite worrying in itself, really.

i'm pretty sure that consumption of human meat is much more common in the 3rd world than it is in the western world, so i don't think that's the problem. I think it's like mad cow disease, which came about from feeding cow meat to cows. It's an evolutionary mechanism built in to our genes that makes sure that cannibalism is not rewarded in our genes pools. Evolution rewards us for expanding our gene pools, and protect our own gene pools, so eating our own kind would not be beneficial genetically. Evolution does not want us to be eating our young during a hard winter, because those young, if they survive, are our best hope for carrying on our genes to the next generation.