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Comment by bediger4000

In general, eating apex predators is pretty bad, because they have (and we humans have) a high concentration of every bad thing that the less-than-apex predators and herbivores pick up from the environment.

Eating human flesh can lead to transmitting parasites, as can consuming animals fed on human feces (pigs or fish). The big example of this is Kuru (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease))

So: avoid human flesh to avoid concentrations of mercury, dioxin, parasites and prion-related diseases.

parent bediger4000 7 years ago

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