Current Events > Any biological ramifications to eating humans?

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Like getting sick from their meat or gaining stds that they have or something like that? Is there a reason beyond currently infused new age morals?

Always wondered this.
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Kuru

Edit: Found a wikipedia article on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

Basically what @Anarchy_Juiblex said.

Diseases.

If you do it in Canada you turn into a Wendigo.
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Prion diseases but I don't know exactly what.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Prion diseases but I don't know exactly what.

Prions are some fucking scary shit.

Aren't there still cultures around today that practice this? Probably other people have in survival type situations as well.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Prion diseases but I don't know exactly what.

CJD. Well, according to the X-Files episode "Our Town", if the show can be trusted as a source of medical advice.
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Only if the brain is eaten iirc
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Ultima Dragon posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Prion diseases but I don't know exactly what.

Prions are some fucking scary shit.

Aren't there still cultures around today that practice this? Probably other people have in survival type situations as well.

Indeed, like if you're lost at sea and have to engage maritime law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMEV8DHc6E0
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Funkdamental posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Prion diseases but I don't know exactly what.

CJD. Well, according to the X-Files episode "Our Town", if the show can be trusted as a source of medical advice.

I think that was just one dude that happened to have a rare disease and then the people eating him caught that rare disease. Not that eating people just naturally gave them the disease.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Funkdamental posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Prion diseases but I don't know exactly what.

CJD. Well, according to the X-Files episode "Our Town", if the show can be trusted as a source of medical advice.

I think that was just one dude that happened to have a rare disease and then the people eating him caught that rare disease. Not that eating people just naturally gave them the disease.

You are who you eat.
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The disease has lingered due to kuru’s long incubation period of anywhere from 10 to over 50 years.

Jesus that's a long-ass incubation period.
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>Shunning Cannibals for 6,000 years

>New age
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The primary reason to not eat humans is that their diet is basically garbage. You'd be safer eating almost any other kind of meat, simply because of the chemicals and other things that humans digest and wash themselves in regularly.
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Sylph posted...

The primary reason to not eat humans is that their diet is basically garbage. You'd be safer eating almost any other kind of meat, simply because of the chemicals and other things that humans digest and wash themselves in regularly.

Wouldn't a human contain all the essential minerals and amino acids that another human eating 'im would need?
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Sylph posted...

The primary reason to not eat humans is that their diet is basically garbage. You'd be safer eating almost any other kind of meat, simply because of the chemicals and other things that humans digest and wash themselves in regularly.

Honestly, this.
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But does it?
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saspa posted...

Sylph posted...

The primary reason to not eat humans is that their diet is basically garbage. You'd be safer eating almost any other kind of meat, simply because of the chemicals and other things that humans digest and wash themselves in regularly.

Wouldn't a human contain all the essential minerals and amino acids that another human eating 'im would need?

I would think no more then any other mammal.
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In 2009, researchers at the Medical Research Council discovered a naturally occurring variant of a prion protein in a population from Papua New Guinea that confers strong resistance to kuru. In the study, which began in 1996,[21] researchers assessed over 3,000 people from the affected and surrounding Eastern Highland populations, and identified a variation in the prion protein G127.[22] G127 polymorphism is the result of a missense mutation, and is highly geographically restricted to regions where the kuru epidemic was the most widespread. Researchers believe that the PrnP variant occurred very recently, estimating that the most recent common ancestor lived 10 generations ago.[22][23]

Of the discovery, Professor John Collinge, director of the MRC’s Prion Unit at University College London, has stated that:

It's absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people has developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades is remarkable.

— John Collinge, Medical Research Council

Wow evolution in motion
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