To Starve or Not to Starve?

[bd2999]

Eating zombie flesh might end up killing you anyway. And it would likely be more painful.

[Yojimbo]

At the end of this thread http://forum.homepageofthedead.com/s...ad.php?t=12003 I and others try to explain in some lenght that there is no spice or process that can turn rotten meat edible. I understand that the thought of getting back on top of the foodchain again is attractive. But its not an realistic option. Sure you might be driven mad by hunger and try but you will just starve to death while you puke. I remember that thread, and it was there that Trencher spoke some very sound words of widsom, as he does here. Likely one would be better off eating bugs and worms than they would eating rotting flesh of any kind, let alone the decayed corpse of a zombie, especially considering the types of pathogens that a rotting zombie might harbor. Anyways, as long as potable water is avaliable, a person can go for quite a while without eating before they will starve to death. And in the USA, where the majority of folks are overweight to begin with, people are likely to be able to function primarily on their own body's fat reserve for an even longer period of time. In a crisis I would rather be hungry and scavaging around for a few morsels of food than risk making myself vunerable because I am doubled over with severe stomach cramps and puking my guts out.

[lullubelle]

I would starve, I mean becoming infected does not sound like a good idea, I mean has it ever been questioned or brought up the issue of getting infected by eating a zombie, anyone knows?

[Thorn]

At the end of this thread http://forum.homepageofthedead.com/s...ad.php?t=12003 I and others try to explain in some lenght that there is no spice or process that can turn rotten meat edible. I understand that the thought of getting back on top of the foodchain again is attractive. But its not an realistic option. Sure you might be driven mad by hunger and try but you will just starve to death while you puke. ^ This I think that barring any firm scientific knowledge that eating a zed would NOT cause the eater to become infected, or have other problems (and it is unlikely that such knowledge would come about) then I would not eat a zombie. Unless I was in an endless parking lot with nothing but concrete around, I would eat anything else other than a zombie, even if it was just sticks and leaves, although under normal circumstances, you can find something better to eat than sticks. and this ^ I would eat grass rather eat a zomb, even choke cherries sound better than zomb meat!! Really though if you are in the woods there are lots of different barks,berries, sweet grass you could eat that would keep you alive for awhile. If you know what kinds to eat that is,now the choke cherries would be a no no. lol In the city I would rather risk going in garbage cans to find food thrown away in nearby restaurants. No zomb meat for me! ...oh and this ^

[Wyldwraith]

As usual you said it best Thorn, Zombie meat = Inedible. Also = Excellent way to infect the stupid a good distance into the dead rising from the sounds of things here

[SRP76]

You people have no sense of adventure. "The meat HAS to be rotten, infected, spoiled, putrid, etc., because that's the way it's always been in this world". Well, zombies haven't always walked around taking bites out of people, either. If that's going on, you can throw all your rules out the window. You don't know zombie is bad for you until you try it.

[sandrock74]

You people have no sense of adventure. "The meat HAS to be rotten, infected, spoiled, putrid, etc., because that's the way it's always been in this world". Well, zombies haven't always walked around taking bites out of people, either. If that's going on, you can throw all your rules out the window. You don't know zombie is bad for you until you try it. After you my friend!

[Thorn]

As usual you said it best Thorn, Zombie meat = Inedible. Also = Excellent way to infect the stupid a good distance into the dead rising from the sounds of things here Thanks brother, I really appreciate that. I have researched food borne illness at length to understand them and while I will definitely agree that the zombie walking around might not be held to the same rules as normal rotting flesh (I will concede it might not be as vulnerable to viruses perhaps as it is impossible to know since George has never said) I would not take the chance, and everything we do know SCREAMS do not put the rotting, worm infested, bloated, blood soaked, filthy, inset covered flesh of reanimated humans into your mouth. Even if you clean it up real nice first and add a sprig of dill for garnish. There are somethings sauce won't hide.

[AcesandEights]

As disheartened as I was to see this topic come up again, I am very happy to see how many people realize eating rotten, infected meat is sheer, utter lunacy of the highest, gibbering caliber.