Translations:Food and drink prohibitions/77/en

Humans

Main articles: Cannibalism and Human cannibalism

See also: Donner Party, Alferd Packer, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, Marten Hartwell, Armin Meiwes, and The First Crusade

Of all the taboo meat, human flesh ranks as the most heavily proscribed. In recent times, humans have consumed the flesh of fellow humans in rituals and out of insanity, hatred, or overriding hunger – never as a common part of their diet, but it is thought that the practice was once widespread among all humans.