Although reports are that in the case of the Donner Party humans were cooked first, I’ve never seen anything that comments on the degree of well-done.
The South American rugby team stranded in the high Andes that wound up eating their deceased comrades to stay alive did not have a means of making fire, so they ate them raw. Decomposition was not a problem in their case, staying warm and not frostbitten was. Anyhow, they seemed to have survived without picking up any particular nasties from raw human flesh. Then again, most of those eaten were young and healthy.
Let’s face it, if you’re in straits that dire potential parasites are among the least of your problems.
Actually, I’m thinking maybe you could eat my Complementary Modalities instructor. She also taught the Pathology class, which was the most boring class I have ever had to sit through.
She wasn’t a very good teacher, she has been fired from her college instructing job, and being as how I’ve already taken my final exam in her class, I really have no further use for her.
She is one of those healthy diet-eating, bottled-water drinking types, and, due to hypothyroidism, the meat would be well-marbled.
Isn’t the argument made that we all have some symbiotic bacteria, but that this can cause problems if you get someone else’s, as you’re not used to it. As in, there’s a reason you don’t share toothbrushes.
