Did the north korean eat his legs nonconsensually?

Yes, but he shared and the legless guy was super hungry so he forgave.

Lost and suncrisp'd at sea is a helluva drug.

How'd they stop the bleeding?

It's pretty much the only case where I could legit excuse someone murdering and eating another human. Under any other circumstance, "Hang him, shoot him, electric chair, whatever. He needs to die."

"But he was lost at sea for three months!"

They were lost at sea? Why didn't you say so? That's different!

In fact, aside from some mandatory psychiatric care I can't really think of a punishment that would be necessary.

It is interesting to think about how fear of incurable mad human disease might or might not deter that.

When we eat each other and get those prions, it essentially means we'll eventually get the human version of mad cow disease, right?

And that it's incurable.

There's no human equivalent of mad cow.

All we have is this fucked up prion disease that makes you go to sleep and never wake up. Super lethal, spread by eating infected corpses. Only encountered in this region of South-East Asia in a super primitive tribe, and once they were told "Stop eating corpses or go to jail" the infection stopped spreading.

Prion disease are super rare though, so you only really encounter them in cannibal societies. Even then, it's still rare and you almost never see it. Even among cannibals.

Really? I thought our version of prion disease was basically mad cow disease.

And that any act of cannibalism basically guaranteed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

Mad cow disease is prion based, isn't it?

If you eat someone who isn't infected with a prion disease, you won't get it yourself.

So in that case, it's safe?

Problem is, prion diseases can and do spread via cannibalism, and they're incurable.

If you have a cannibal society, you're playing with fire.

But in that instance, it's safe?

You can get lucky?

As long as nobody has a prion disease, you're good.

In fact, you're good 99 times out of 100. Problem is, it only takes one infected corpse to take down a fuckload of people (anyone who ate infected flesh gets it), and when they die a cannibal society will end up eating them too.

Man, I am pretty uneducated in some things. But who isn't? x)

Thank you for this valuable lesson, Arthur.

_begins gnawing at your ankle_

Prion diseases are rare, and they're generally not contagious (unless you're a cannibal). That's pretty good, considering how fucked up and incurable prion diseases tend to be.

_mutters slobberingly_

yousa tasty!

doomsday plot served

Thanks again for the medical history lesson

G'night fellas

In fact, BVE is mostly a problem because we feed dead cows to other cows. Bloodmeal is a common product in cattle feed, and the bloodmeal is often made with the spray dried blood of other cows.

Also, the latest planet of the apes movies was dumb as hell I hear

A lot of cattle farmers ended up "solving" the problem by feeding cattle bloodmeal to chickens, and then after slaughtering those chickens fed the spare chicken parts to the cows.

Ironically failing to break the cannibal loop, and still putting consumers in serious danger.

But did the consumers believe it

To stop mad cow disease from spreading and being a perpetual problem in the human food supply, literally all you have to do is stop feeding cows to other cows. Not even indirectly.

Stop feeding cows to cows, and you're good.

Did they believe that did anything though?

It wasn't about the consumers. It was to evade the regulators.

I asked you a goddamn question, Arthur.

Did. They. Believe it.