(Not satire) Cannibalism is bad for your health, scientists find - Kotaku In Action 2

(Not satire) Cannibalism is bad for your health, scientists find (www.ctvnews.ca)

posted 8 days ago by CanuckElhead 8 days ago by CanuckElhead +35 / -0

Cannibalism is bad for your health, scientists find

Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is harmful to populations who practice it, scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic have found.

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– veus_dolt 3 points 7 days ago +3 / -0

“We looked at the human body as a potential source of food, analyzing both energy gains and hidden costs,” Misiak said in a statement released on Wednesday by Wroclaw University.

I don't think they were using the research money for what the headline indicates. I think they were looking a step beyond eating the bugs.

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