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>the latter stages of famine (no crops, wilds game. nothing left). 'Royalty' and priests eat first (hierarchical shit). Conditions improve, and they are left addicted to human flesh and other parts.
http://justiceharvard.org/lecture-2-the-case-for-cannibalism/
https://www.wired.com/story/case-for-cannibalism-how-survive-donner-party/
EATING HUMAN FLESH hasn’t always been so distasteful. At least socially.
Archeologists have found butchered human bones far too frequently for it to have been a sporadic, starvation-only practice. And before Western culture washed over the globe, ritualistic cannibalism was not uncommon.
“The Wari’ [an indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest] were just as mortified to learn that Westerners were burying their dead as the Westerners were to learn that the Wari’ were eating theirs,” Bill Schutt, author of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, tells me.
In other words, the revulsion to cannibalism is not innate. It’s a societal taboo without a Darwinian explanation (such as incest).3 What sets it apart from other social taboos is its remarkable power. The Donner Party might be infamous for its cannibalism, but more than a dozen members of the party starved to death rather than eat the already dead.