In nature - Cannibalism usually occurs when food access is bad.

This being said, the movie ALIVE based on a real story depicts a scenario of cannibalism to survive with great detail. The "food" wasn`t even cooked but eaten raw/frozen.

Do you really think other of you same kind wouldn`t be on the menu when things got really bad? Until population goes way down and people are able to sustain themselves i believe this is a real issue.

Your security measures would be necessary not only to keep people from stealing your stuff but also to keep you off the menu. Survival of the fittest - or the one with the best skills. In other words - people with military training would be some of the ones that endure - especially if everyone in the end resorts to cannibalism.

The craziest people would know to what length they would go to survive - this is why everyone else should also know.

The thread itself grosses me out, but in the end - this would be a part of a really bad SHTF scenario.

I mean... If there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE...

Chow down! You better run!

Almost anybody would if they seriously needed too; and the body would make it pretty hard for you not too because survival is an instinct.

I am allergic to human...

The real question is can/will you kill a human for food?

If it came to cannibalism, you're not going to find some fresh, refrigerated human body somewhere. You'd have to kill someone before cannibalism became an option.

And you can kill only those around you, or who's available at the time. What if it's only friends? Only family?

Nope, I'd rather eat bugs and dirt.

I would rather join any ancestors I have at the bottom of Beachy Head
(otherwise known as the "Cliffs of Despair")

ETA: just to expand on the above.. this would be my course of actions if there was no meat, no fish, no gulls, grasses, seaweed or samphire left to eat. so if there was no food but human flesh left then I would rather take that one last step and join my ancestors.

Originally posted by MysticPearl
The real question is can/will you kill a human for food?

If it came to cannibalism, you're not going to find some fresh, refrigerated human body somewhere. You'd have to kill someone before cannibalism became an option.

And you can kill only those around you, or who's available at the time. What if it's only friends? Only family?

Well, you can turn it around. If someone wanted to kill you, and you survived - they did not. Would you look at them as a piece of meat when you were about to starve?

And setting traps would make you distant from the process - leaving a fresh, refrigerated "whatever" is in the trap.

Jeez... I`m totally grossed out by my own thread. Guess I would be one of those dying in the aftermath with lots of dead "meat" lying around.

It would depend a lot on who the person is. Family.. no. Friends.. probably not.

There are some people, however, that I would have absolutely no qualms about bashing their head and eating them. Preferably cooked, but raw if necessary.

I really always wondered what human flesh or meat would taste like. Flesh would probably be nasty but I think the meat might just be like most other meat and depending on if the person worked out would determine how lean the meat was. So with all that (probably already too much haha) said, I would honestly think about eating another person. The only thing that I don't think I'd do is kill to eat that person. I would wait until the person is already dead, of course this would bring other issues to the table. For instance what did that person die from? Could I contract a disease? And so on. If no one around had died and there was no food, I'd simply not eat and/or die. As it is I probably put too much thought into it.

Not sure what I would do, I think it's one of those situations where you'll find out what you're made of when it happens. A family member or friend I'd have to say no, a stranger... well circumstances and all but I think it would all come down to how dire the situation was. I'm certainly not against cannibalism but I don't want my loved ones getting eaten. If it absolutely came down to it you do what you need to do with my family, I'll do the same with yours. They would want us to live, I know I'd want my family to live no matter what. Whether we could talk about it later or not is irrelevant, living is what matters.

I'm not sure what I'd do. Eat at McDonald's tomorrow just in case.

Thanks.

I think the real question here is will I at least have ketchup for dip?

I couldn't eat you dry and raw, i'm sorry.