I’ve just asked a friend of mine who lives in PNG and yeah, this definitely happened. Nowadays it doesn’t happen anymore except potentially in some insanely remote areas.

Supposedly the Japanese during WW2 also resorted to cannibalism.

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hermitcrab 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

President Bush (snr) was nearly eaten by Japanese soldiers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/qr1zth/in_sep...

(before he was president!)

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applfanboysbgon 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Supposedly the Japanese during WW2 also resorted to cannibalism.

Germans and Russians did too. Most humans with a survival instinct will turn to cannibalism if it their only means to survive. This is completely unrelated to cannibalism as a cultural practice.

	▲	hermitcrab 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apparently cannibalism after sea disasters was considered acceptable, as long as there was a fair lottery! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_at_sea