Asklemmy

Sit down. Grab a drink, if you're a drinker. Relax.

Story time.

My country was involved in a somewhat civil war between 1961 and 1974. Grisly thing, fought overseas, in many different scenario. For some, it was a holiday season, as the terrain they were deployed to was essentially peaceful or very low combat prone but others saw very harsh conditions, with even lack of combat rations.

On one particular front, things got so ugly, so dire, that at some point people did resort to cannibalism. Well, a mix of cannibalism and necrophagia, as the fresh corpses of the deceased would be dug up during the night, pieces of the flesh harvested and the corpse returned to its grave. Heads were treated as a delicacy.

According to a man that spent three years on that hell and came back alive to tell the story, and now I quote: "tasted like pork, a little sweeter and a bit more oily but it was better than slowly starving to death". Soldiers and locals alike were reduced to such last resort solutions.

That's for the taste part.

For the dangers of eating it, there are prion diseases like Kuru. It is always a concern lifted against the consumption of human flesh. Then there are the autoimmune diseases, pathogens and virus we all carry.

Since the theoretical at hand is based on the premise of all meat being lab cultivated, I risk most of those risks would be diminished.

Personally, I wouldn't eat it. Religious authorities would jump off their rails just on the simple mention of the idea.

Cannibalism was a last resort solution in extreme desperation. Have some nightmare fuel on me.