• Question: can we eat humas

    Asked by jhdxd to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Nathan Green

      Nathan Green answered on 18 Mar 2013:


      If you mean humans then its possible but there are some pretty big ethical issues, but if you mean hummus then yes, certainly!

    • Photo: Jason King

      Jason King answered on 18 Mar 2013:


      You could certainly live of humans instead of other meats if you had too. Not so sure about hummus – I have ethical issues!

    • Photo: Sophie Holles

      Sophie Holles answered on 19 Mar 2013:


      You can eat humans but you can get the equivalent of mad cow disease from it.. there was a tribe in indonesia that ate the heads of their dead people until fairly recently because they thought it gave them power.. but their life expectancy was only about 40 years because their brain was attacked by the proteins you get called ‘prions’ when you eat your own species, that make holes in your brain until its like a sponge and you start to go crazy, walk funny and then you die. This is what happened to cows in England when they started to feed them food that had bits of cow in it back in the 90s..

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