Poll: Survival. By any means necessary.

[Pyrian]

Eating human - or most animals really - is relatively complete nutrition if you eat the whole thing. Especially the liver. Eating just muscle, though, is not.

 

[Gennadios]

Even handling blood could be dangerous. Guy could have some really freaky diseases that aren't immediately visible.

I guess I could burn the body and try sucking out the bone marrow.

Not opposed to the idea per se, just not sure how careful I'll be after a week of starvation.

 

[smithy_2045]

If it's the difference between life and death, absolutely. My life is more important to me than anyone else's.

 

[Eddie the head]

According to my personal interpretation, Human meat has nearly 100% of nutrients for human dietary needs.

It would be a waste of perfect high grade 50~200lb meat.

Well yeah, but if I'm remembering correctly the proteins form human flesh don't brake down well so it's not "good" for you. I think I heard cannibalism has been show to cause brain damage. Although that might have been some other animal and they might not have been omnivores. I think it's a case of "it will work for now."

Even handling blood could be dangerous. Guy could have some really freaky diseases that aren't immediately visible.

If you're worried about a blood born diseases like HIV you would likely be fine eating him as long as you don't have any cuts in your mouth. Stomach acid is very good at killing viruses. Bacteria? Cook the guy. I'd be more worried about getting blood in your eye or something.

 

[Serinanth]

Sure in a survival situation then every man/woman for themself however I don't think I could ever kill someone being very skinny and almost never having fought before.

You get your ass underground and use your generator solar and thermal power with grow lights to grow your food instead of eating nasty raiders.

Do you know how much underground area you would need to sustain a farm big enough to support you. Also how do you expect to get water, from taps?
http://1bog.org/files/2011/01/backyard_farm.jpg (as I don't know how to insert a picture here is an image URL)

Muscle doesn't sound good for eating though.

Then what the hell do you think you are eating when you eat regular meat? Useless parts of pig that grow just to be eaten by other animals?

You use vertical farming with LEDS, and most here use well water. I grew up on a Hopi farm. A farm that big is not needed at all. I am Hopi, we do not use the same methods. I am well aware of how to self sustain even in the harshest of environments, that is what we do. Hopi farmers view western farmers as extremely wasteful with little results to show for the resources used. There are still parts of our reservation where no technology is allowed and they still live as they have for thousands of years, if anyone were to survive an apocalypse it would be Hopi. LOL.

I was going to give you crap about growing with LED's as the full spectrum of sunlight is difficult/expensive to reproduce. Also the fact that LED's intensity drops off fast so you need the light close to the plant. This is my experience with aquarium lighting by the way, I have fully planted tanks and its only been recently that LED lights are being made that can penetrate a deep tank and provide the right lighting to have your plants thrive.

Then I did some reading, its amazing how far LED's have come =) And from what it looks like those grow LED lights are not made to be pleasing to the eye like the fish tank ones, that vertical farm in Chicago has some serious UV color to it.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Sure in a survival situation then every man/woman for themself however I don't think I could ever kill someone being very skinny and almost never having fought before.

You get your ass underground and use your generator solar and thermal power with grow lights to grow your food instead of eating nasty raiders.

Do you know how much underground area you would need to sustain a farm big enough to support you. Also how do you expect to get water, from taps?
http://1bog.org/files/2011/01/backyard_farm.jpg (as I don't know how to insert a picture here is an image URL)

Muscle doesn't sound good for eating though.

Then what the hell do you think you are eating when you eat regular meat? Useless parts of pig that grow just to be eaten by other animals?

You use vertical farming with LEDS, and most here use well water. I grew up on a Hopi farm. A farm that big is not needed at all. I am Hopi, we do not use the same methods. I am well aware of how to self sustain even in the harshest of environments, that is what we do. Hopi farmers view western farmers as extremely wasteful with little results to show for the resources used. There are still parts of our reservation where no technology is allowed and they still live as they have for thousands of years, if anyone were to survive an apocalypse it would be Hopi. LOL.

I was going to give you crap about growing with LED's as the full spectrum of sunlight is difficult/expensive to reproduce. Also the fact that LED's intensity drops off fast so you need the light close to the plant. This is my experience with aquarium lighting by the way, I have fully planted tanks and its only been recently that LED lights are being made that can penetrate a deep tank and provide the right lighting to have your plants thrive.

Then I did some reading, its amazing how far LED's have come =) And from what it looks like those grow LED lights are not made to be pleasing to the eye like the fish tank ones, that vertical farm in Chicago has some serious UV color to it.

Yea they have come a LONG way with LEDS, and with their energy usage and longevity as well, this I think is hands down the most cost effective and recourse efficient way to indoor farm. I have some of the LED grow lights in my wall garden, and they are great!

 

[kasperbbs]

Probably, the guy is already dead and i might join him if i don't eat something, i doubt i would care much about morals and whatnot after an apocalypse, i wouldn't attack random people like that raider did, but eating some asshole who tried to kill me, sure.

 

[lunavixen]

Under the circumstances in the OP, yes, I probably would (though only if it were a case of eat him or die, so about 3 weeks with no food+), but I wouldn't kill someone to eat them. The average 80kg human would probably cough up about 30kg of usable protein (as any sensible person wouldn't eat the viscera, and you'd lose approximately 10kg to the skeleton as the bones wouldn't be dry mass as a fresh kill and a lot more to fat, tendons and sinew). That said, however, chances are I wouldn't make it that far into an apocalypse.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Seriously? No.

Not out of moral bullshit, but the thought itself makes me sick.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Well, on paper, it all sounds fine and dandy. "Oh, he's dead and I am starving. Might as well eat him!"
But in reality, I probably wouldn't be able to bring myself to do it. I mean, imagine killing him with a gun. That, in and of itself is shocking enough to cripple YOU for a good minute or so, and at the end of it, even if you weren't so hungry you could pass out, cutting him up with your bare fingers is a real accomplishment. If the smell won't make you vomit, maybe the consistency of his guts are, since you couldn't really carve anything else out. And at the end of it, eating it raw is dangerous, and cooking it means you have to build a fire, which is a task that is quite demanding even for the most talented boyscout when you have been starving for A WHOLE WEEK!

So no. I'm more likely to let him lie and carry on, or drag his corpse by the tuck of his leather vest because I've gone insane and need company.

 

[GrumbleGrump]

Sure I'd do it. It's not like I'd get the Kuru or something.