PEDIATRICS Vol. 94 No. 6 December 1994, pp. 803
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STRANGE CONUNDRUM

"Cannibalism doesn't horrify us because we find human life sacred, but because our social taboos happen to forbid it. The real conundrum is why we who live in a society that is constantly perfecting the art of mass-producing human bodies on the battlefield find humans good to kill but bad to eat."