Dhaka, May 28 -- We are what we eat. What's in your fridge, on your plate, and how you eat it puts you in or out of a complex, fragile mess of identity, class, and many other factors. Sometimes even affording food becomes difficult. After all, poverty, homelessness, and biohazards restrict our access, driving people to desperation.

But, no matter how dire circumstances get, we tell ourselves that there are some things we will never eat because eating them would make us outcasts from society and horrors to ourselves.

One such item is human meat. Eating human flesh is a criminal offence today, but the practice has been considered taboo for ages. Ask anybody, and they would call it disgusting, repulsive, vomit-inducing.

From the security ...