It was taboo for them to eat a member of their own Tribe. It had to be someone of a Rival Group whom they felt DESERVED to be eaten alive! And preferably not older tough people that make chewing with your mouth closed impossible at the dinner table.

I've spent weeks with these people while working as an Oil Company Reresentitive attempting to swindle them out of the rich oil deposits on their land created by large amounts of decomposed meals that where cast aside as waste.

If they couldn't consume a large man in one sitting... they weren't to keen on left overs.

Don't think this to be a travisty of human degridation. There was enough oil in that ground to put my kids through college and place a nice size down payment on our Family's Dream Home.

One Man's JUNK is another Man's treasure...