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Cannibalism Is Bad for You, According to Researchers Who Actually Studied It

Researchers say long-term cannibalism can spread deadly prion diseases, which may help explain why humans made it taboo.

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For anyone out there who was thinking about dabbling in some light cannibalism, I’ve got some bad news for you. Turns out, as reported by Reuters, researchers from Poland and the Czech Republic have concluded that cannibalism is bad for your health. Man, it’s like everything is bad for you nowadays.

Led by Michal Misiak of the University of Wroclaw and Petr Turecek of Charles University in Prague, the study wasn’t trying to settle the question of whether eating people is morally wrong. We settled that one a long time ago, and there isn’t much gray area. We might let it slide if your soccer team’s plane crashes in the Andes, but we will not abide........

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