The Taboo against Cannibalism isn't going to Replicate itself, Parents!

I've talked to enough parents by now to come to the conclusion that most of them neglect their responsibilities when it comes to training their offspring about cannibalism. Many of them have a very cavalier attitude about the whole thing as if their little darlings would never think of eating another human being and don't need to be taught. As if.

I reckon that the public schools, if they are good for anything, can be deployed to reinforce the "don't eat people" ethic in order to make up for parental failure. I'd put it in health class, make it low key. "See this food pyramid, class? What's not on the food pyramid. That's right, Jeffrey, people are not on the pyramid. That's because people don't eat people." Seasame Street could do one of its famous classification lessons with two food items and a human. "Two of these things belong together; two of these things are kind of the same; one of these things is not like the others. Can you guess its name? Human!"

Maybe some PSAs, as in "The More You Know". Miley Cyrus says: "Did you know that eating people is one of the main causes for kuru, a disease of the brain similar to Mad Cow? Don't eat people." Or an Afternoon Special about a cannibalistic teen who alienates everyone with his people eating ways. "We don't eat people, Simon. Period."

I'd leave it to parents to explain how eating people might actually be an option under certain narrowly defined emergency situations.