Chapter 10 "Eat Me"

Before reading this chapter I new very little about cannibalism. All I ever heard about was how Jeffrey Dahmer and how he used it for evil as he consumed his numerous victims. I was surprised to read about how the Chinese commonly used it as a medical treatment for ailments. People would eat certain body parts to help cure their ailments. The consumption of these body parts were considered to be quite beneficial and described as being rather tasty once you got over the fact that you were consuming human flesh. They compared the taste of this flesh with beefsteak and that the breast was the best tasting part of the body. I had a hard time accepting this because cannibalism nowadays is so taboo and is considered inhumane if practiced. This chapter opened my eyes to the broad use of the body and how far medicine has come from the days of using cannibalism as a medical treatment for ailments.