In the 1920s, Seabrook came across a West African tribe that would eat human meat, and eventually, he published a book about his experience titled Jungle Ways.

Human flesh might resemble this nice beef fillet. Photo: Alpha Luckily, very few people have any desire to actually eat human flesh. But perhaps some idly wonder what human meat looks and tastes like.

11/01/2022 November 1, 2022. On World Vegan Day, DW looks at why humans eat so much meat when we know it's bad for the planet and our health.

Vegetarians who reject meat do so for various reasons, but some do so because meat generates a feeling of disgust that matches the aversion to things like eating human flesh, feces, or dog meat.

Many vegetarians who reject meat feel disgust which closely matches the aversion others feel to the idea of eating human flesh, faeces or dog meat, new research has found.

Meat eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists. By Katharina Menne. By some estimates, Americans eat around 7,000 animals in a lifetime. M.A. Josephson/Getty Images.