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? asked in Social ScienceAnthropology · 2 years ago

calcium is good for you. human bones have a lot of calcium. why don't we eat human bones?

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  • dpjohnstone
    2 years ago

    Why don't we eat limestone?

  • JimZ
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    I prefer chicken bones.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Bone meal once was often used as a human dietary calcium supplement. Research in the 1980s found that many bone meal preparations were contaminated with lead and other toxic metals, and is no longer recommended as a calcium source.

    Source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_meal
  • Metalplanttag
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Why would we, since we get it by eating "normal" foods.

  • Mark
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Look up "kuru".

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    they can ALSO carry nasty bacteria of whatever killed them ............

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    They're too crunchy.

  • megalomaniac
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    There are other non-cannibalistic ways of getting calcium.

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