Inspired by the “My RDA” thread, my mind jumped to what I thought the question would be. It wasn’t so I’ll make a new thread for it.
If I were a product, on the shelf, boxed and shrink-wrapped, what would my nutritional label say?
Obviously
Contents: 1 human male
Serving size: 8 oz
Servings per container: 640 (I’m economy sized)
but what about the vitamin A, Vitamin C, etc. stuff. Am I both delicious AND nutricious?
Which 8 oz is in the can? It could be all brains, all muscle, all liver, all skin…
Or, did you go thru a grinder and get all homogenized?
Hmm. People sausage.
Good question.
Too broad an answer I guess without that assumption.
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huhuhuhuh. You said “people sausage”.
In that case, it wouldn’t be all that different from beef sausage. Maybe a little leaner. As for the taste… well I don’t know, but I doubt it would be like chicken.
Don’t forget the “expiration” date.
If they labelled people this way, it would have totally spoiled the ending of Soylent Green.
Pork.
You folks think this hasn’t actually been addressed in the research literature, don’t you? Ha. (via JSTOR)
For those without access to JSTOR the cited essay is about a page long and is mainly speculation if irregular consumption of human flesh by Maoris of New Zealond is never-the-less nutritionally significant. It is written in response to a paper by Stanley M. Garn and Walter D. Block entitled “On the Limited Nutritional Value of Cannibalism” (American Anthropologist Vol 72 p106). Referring to THAT paper, in turn, gives us the following:
No other nutritional information (or speculation) is offered that I could see.
… That’s not only not useful but also seems to be entirely pulled out of somebody’s ass, since none of the references Block and Garn cite at the end actually deal with physiology of humans or skillful butchering thereof.
'May contain bones"
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