# How long could you live healthily eating only human flesh?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 23, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-live-healthily-eating-only-human-flesh/427487 "2007-11-23T05:00:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-live-healthily-eating-only-human-flesh/427487/21 "2007-12-01T00:23:58Z")

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[QUOTE=SandyHook]  
I’m thinking that all that raw meat can’t be good for you in the longer run.  
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And I’m thinking featherlou _tartare_ just might turn out to be a true delicacy.

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**Author:** ![t-mobileguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@t-mobileguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-mobileguy)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-live-healthily-eating-only-human-flesh/427487/22 "2007-12-01T02:17:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Quartz]  
You could always pickle or smoke the meat.  
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Nah, that wouldn’t work. Do you know how much THC they would need in their system to make smoking the meat even worth it?

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**Author:** ![tonedef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@tonedef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonedef)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-live-healthily-eating-only-human-flesh/427487/23 "2007-12-02T03:45:26Z")

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[QUOTE=KGS]  
Eating the stomachs of vegans will give you all the vitamins you need. 🆒  
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Yeah thats true but there isn’t going to be much if any meat on them!  
BTW. i thought you couldn’t eat human flesh, I always thought you got a disease or something from doing so.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-live-healthily-eating-only-human-flesh/427487/24 "2007-12-02T04:31:19Z")

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Creuzfeldt-Jakob or variant version. Something fun like that. Like in Papua New Guinea.

> **[Medical Research Council (MRC)](https://www.ukri.org/councils/mrc/)**
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> MRC funds research at the forefront of science to prevent illness, develop therapies and improve human health.

But if one _could_ get by by eating a convenient neighbour, one might be able to avoid going to the shops until all the Christmas-type crowds are gone. Hmmmmm.

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**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-live-healthily-eating-only-human-flesh/427487/25 "2007-12-02T05:40:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Quartz]  
You could always pickle or smoke the meat.  
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My, limited, understanding is that even a rather small amount of heat applied over a long time is sufficient to make VC break down.

That would, I guess, leave out smoking the meat. As for pickling, just on a personal note, I ain’t eating nothing pickled.

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