If stranded without food, and weeks before being rescued, would a vegan resort to cannibalism to survive?

Question

lets assume one of the people you are with is injured and wont survive anyway.

Answer 1

No.  I'll just eat grass or leaves from plants if i have to.

Answer 2

not a vegan to begin with, but in a life or death situation, I'm resort to it.  Its a matter of survival.  

I'd try to wait til another person died, but if that didn't happen, i'd probably do something extreme.  

In history, people lost at sea or stranded have drawn straws to see who is sacrificed for the others.

I'd prefer to wait for someone to die first though, unless it was of disease. But if they starved to death and died or died of drowning or hypothermia, they're fair game.  Not until i get really hungry, and at some point delusional, and yes a sane person will become delusional, would i go to the extreme of killing them.  Same goes for if i were stranded with a pet or horse, or whatever.  I'd eat it.  I'd search for food first, but as a last resort, i wouldn't think twice.

Answer 3

Silly question, undeserving of a serious answer.

Why ask the question of vegans (if you must ask it?) - do you think meat-eaters would feel differently?

Oh , and ''weeks before being rescued'' - how exactly does this hypothetical vegan know it will be weeks before they're rescued?

Sorry Wahoo - can't resist  - ''It amuses me very much to see how some of the strongest convictions change when the chips are really on the line.''

Little amuses me more than a really good mixed metaphor =)

Edit: Wahoo, while I'm not sure why their plight would amuse you, I wasn't questioning the convictions or actions of either of those groups of people.

I was laughing at your mixed metaphor, as I made clear I think. You take the p**s quite a lot on here, I don't think you can complain when others do it to you.

You used one of the two metaphors correctly in your edit.

Lives are on the line

Chips are down

Answer 4

I have a better question.................

If stranded without food, and weeks before being rescued, would a human carnivore resort to cannibalism to survive?

Some yes. Some no.

But I hope they eat the trolls first.

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Answer 5

Though I am not a vegan, I will answer anyway.

Yes, I would resort to cannibalism. It's quite easy for me to say so now because I am not really on a deserted island somewhere without food stuck with some poor sap injured and dying. I can also build a hotel, attract rich tourists and live happily ever after. Or as they described it on Pirates of The Caribbean, "rip the hair off my back, make a rope, tie it onto the back of two giant turtles and ride off back into civilization:. The possibilities of what I will do is limited only by my scotch assisted imagination.

Hopefully, when I get to be in that situation,  my laptop is with me, it's not broken, there is an Internet connection and I can log on to Y!A and finally give you a more definitive answer.

No one can say what absolute certainty what they would do in theoretical situations unlikely ever to happen. At least I don't wish such a situation to happen to anybody.

Answer 6

No. There are far worse things than death. Like compromising your principles. Death is just another adventure.

Answer 7

no, i'd look for plants, coconuts and bananas and stuff. I can't see anyone who eats meat or not eating another human. Even if they were injured.

Besides, how long would a human last? You'd die soon anyway, so why take another living being with you.

Answer 8

doglover: fair enough, but assume there was no vegetable matter to consume: like with those survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972, and they resorted to cannibalism to survive.  There was literally no alternative at all, trapped for 70 days above the snowline..

You would have to or starve, and don't think that eating human flesh would be any easier on a meat eater: My skin crawls thinking about it!

lo_mcg:  remember that you will not know how long it will be until you are rescued and that cuts both ways.  Starvation is intense and painful for most people.

Answer 9

i eat meat and i still don't know whether i'd resort to eating a person.

i don't think i would but then again ive never been in that situation..so i supose i don't really know

Answer 10

Very few can answer that with an absolute statement.  It amuses me very much to see how some of the strongest convictions change when the chips are really on the line.

lo_mcg   While I doubt that the Donner party and the Uruguayan soccer team were vegans I bet that before their adventures they had some rather strong convictions and they changed when the chips were down.

Answer 11

Only if the injured human wore a blue shirt and could recite the complete works or Robbie Williams while balancing 2 eggs on their index fingers

I've applied as much sense to my answer as you did to your question

silly pseudo psychology belongs in classrooms. The "logic" or reasoning when discussing a life threatening situation from the comfort of a desk means nothing. Who would ever know for certain what they would do in such a situation.

"Yes, i'd stuff myself silly"

"no, i'd starve"

Really, what do either of those answers prove ?