Eating Human Flesh to Survive: 5 Tragic Stories of Cannibalism

Throughout history, human beings have been stranded in desperate situations where they’ve had to eat human flesh to survive. In these stories, the victims are also those who have had to resort to eating human flesh. The Donner PartyThe Donner Party by Vincent Decourt, via thenation.comIn 1846, a group of American pioneers headed west under the captaincy of George Donner. The Donner party decided to press on through the route without heeding a warning to the contrary. The 87 members of the Donner Party reached the Great Salt Lake Desert, the crossing of which caused the loss of dozens of cattle.