Do you know or do you remember how this disease was found? It was because a medical guy was studying a tribe that had the Kuru, laugh death. They had been eating their dead family as a ritual which was more about to honor them. That why they got the disease. Stopping it was to get them to not do the ritual. I can understand where this ritual got started, whether they ended it I do not know, the time time of famine where to survive they ate the dead. To justify doing this, the ritual was place in their lives. It was done a lot more than is talked about in history much. Dairies and accounts tell what happened to people who got stranded and had no food. Early settlers in America, the very first ones had problems a lot with getting along with the people here. They mess with them and you know they were so much smarter than them and done a thing to upset the natives, they attacked them. When they kept attacking they kind of close their fort and didn't come out to find their own food. The native did not give them more when they demand the natives give all their food to them. They were afraid the natives would be out there to kill them. No the natives went home.

The natives came back and found what they did and killed them, for eating dead people, they had a thing about cannibals. Ships came back to the place and made peace with the natives, smart move.

In other words do not eat people.