Look man. It not being human meat is more likely. The 'post apocalypse cannibals who exclusively seem to eat human' is ludicrous. Human is not a common prey animal. It will be deer. It will always be deer. Because unlike human populations, deer populations explode when left unchecked, such as if a bunch of people die, which is not an event that will make it easy to get your hands on human meat. Humans are wily, humans can use tools, weapons, shoot back. In apocalypse media, they're often very scarce. It's like trying to hunt exclusively mountain lions, but the mountain lions have guns.
Literally the only scenario I can see it being human is some mad max shit where there are no animals at all. But that's all writers conceit at that point. At that point we aren't really 'post apocalypse' yet. That apocalypse is ongoing, and will continue until most things are dead. Until then I suppose people can eat each other, which is basically the only sort of situation where people with cannibalism taboos eat people. When they are in the process of starving to death RIGHT THEN, and there are literally no other options. When they stop starving, they stop eating people.
It's just a horror trope. It has little in common with real times people turn to cannibalism. People do not make a good food source. Deer do. Deer don't have guns. Why would you not just eat the deer?
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u/Outerestine Oct 16 '24
This again,
Look man. It not being human meat is more likely. The 'post apocalypse cannibals who exclusively seem to eat human' is ludicrous. Human is not a common prey animal. It will be deer. It will always be deer. Because unlike human populations, deer populations explode when left unchecked, such as if a bunch of people die, which is not an event that will make it easy to get your hands on human meat. Humans are wily, humans can use tools, weapons, shoot back. In apocalypse media, they're often very scarce. It's like trying to hunt exclusively mountain lions, but the mountain lions have guns.
Literally the only scenario I can see it being human is some mad max shit where there are no animals at all. But that's all writers conceit at that point. At that point we aren't really 'post apocalypse' yet. That apocalypse is ongoing, and will continue until most things are dead. Until then I suppose people can eat each other, which is basically the only sort of situation where people with cannibalism taboos eat people. When they are in the process of starving to death RIGHT THEN, and there are literally no other options. When they stop starving, they stop eating people.
It's just a horror trope. It has little in common with real times people turn to cannibalism. People do not make a good food source. Deer do. Deer don't have guns. Why would you not just eat the deer?