Cannibalism during a SHTF scenario - would you eat or die?, page 3

reply to post by TheOven

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Yes! I thought of The Road when I read the OP.

I haven't seen the movie but I read the book some years ago. As far as the people saying they would rather eat bugs and dirt, in a scenario like that in The Road, they are suffering a nuclear winter and there is little to no vegetation or game to gather/hunt. The threat of being on another person's menu was very plausible in that scenario.

Honestly I don't think there's a limit to what an individual could do in times of desperation. A traumatic event can wreck someone so bad they're a totally different person than who they were before.
I think everyone here, in this moment would rather starve to death than eat their own offspring or family/friends. But if the S were to truly HTF in the worst way there is no way of knowing what we would become.

reply to post by br0ker

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We are just meat like cows, pigs etc so why not, if it was me or "you" i guarantee it wont be me getting eaten.

Its only acceptable in a survival environment.

Would I kill another human to eat them? No. Would I eat them if they had already died? Probably. Actually, human meat is quite tasty - similar to veal.

en.wikipedia.org...

Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, allegedly in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it. He reported, "It was like good, fully-developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable."


***I don't believe that any of us could eat human flesh for long periods of time, due to the diseases that can and do occur such as "laughing sickness".

en.wikipedia.org...

Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder that is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion found in humans.[1] The term "kuru" derives from the Fore word "kuria/guria" ("to shake"),[2] a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the laughing sickness due to the pathologic bursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that Kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism.

reply to post by br0ker

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I'd rather stab myself in the eyes with a spoon continuously than eat someone else. What a ridiculous thread.

There are plenty of things to eat besides humans. Millions die everyday of starvation, they aint away cooking their mother or neighbour.

Tell you something, if a SHTF scenario were to arise and somehow all the edible plants and animals died before the humans, any person who tried to eat me or my family would soon regret it.

And to say that survival is a natural instinct and you'd not manage to control it is an opinion of the weak minded...anyone with true love in their heart would find the nearest cliff and jump before they ate someone else...

reply to post by jrmcleod

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So what about the film 'Alive'? What would you have done in that situation? (no other food available)

reply to post by br0ker

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without having to think about it eat or be eaten
anything to keep my kids alive

reply to post by Flavian

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Tried my hardest to walk to safety, get off the mountain and if i died doing so then so be it...As strange as that may sound, its what i would have done. Rather that than eat another human...

reply to post by jrmcleod

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I understand where you are coming from. The thing is, unless we are actually in that situation then all opinion is pure conjecture as we do not truly know how we would respond. Our answers here are pure speculation.....

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