I don't think humans would consider dead animals 'food' if we wouldn't have been trained to do so. I saw a documentary the other day about a girl who spent some of her childhood locked up with dogs: she was actually living with dogs, eating (dog food) with them and so on. She moved like a dog, barked like a dog, and when they after a long time (later in life) managed to teach her to speak a human languag, she was asked what her favorite activities were. She answered that it was being with dogs, playing with them and so on.
Seeing the footage of a human that eats and moves and barks like a dog after having spent part of her childhood with these animals makes it very clear that humans are extremely adaptive and prone to external influence, especially in the early years of life. It doesn't surprise me that most humans raised on meat like the taste of meat or consider it food suitable for humans, but that doesn't mean that muscles and blood from animals IS human 'food'. Cannibals ate humans, but that doesn't make human meat 'food' either...
Maybe kids growing up in a community where cannibalism was considered normal would think I'd be crazy for not looking at what they ate as 'food'. I've been visiting places (in other parts of the world) where they don't only do not eat meat, but it's forbidden to sell or serve meat as well. Kids growing up there probably don't even think of dead animals' body parts as something that potentially could be killed, chewed and digested. If someone would discuss wasting food, eating a part of a dead animal probably wouldn't even pop up in their mind as an option.
'The Dog Girl'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...g17.xml&page=1
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