answer:Truthfully, I have never given it much thought. From anthro classes back in college I have a basic understanding of the why and as they explain it was either a situation which somehow created a lack of food (think crashed plane in the Andes or severe drought as in the New Mexico/Colorado area inhabited by the Anisazi) or, more commonly, a sort of religious undertaking where the positive attributes of the “eatee” were absorbed by the “eater”. From a personal perspective, meat IS meat.