That’s not to say those precious calories wouldn’t be helpful in a life-or-death starvation situation. In 1972, Pedro Algorta’s plane crashed in the Andes mountains. Some didn’t survive the crash. Pedro, starving, began to eat the dead people’s hands, thighs, and arms. Human meat wasn’t ideal, but this is a seventy-one-day ordeal of starvation we’re talking about. Pedro said, “I always had a hand or something in my pocket, and when I could, I would begin to eat, to put something in my mouth, to feel that I was getting nourished.” In that extreme scenario, Pedro didn’t care that human meat
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