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* In one famous shipwreck (name forgotten) several boats of survivors got away. The boat crew in best condition when they landed after several weeks without food didn't eat their dead comrade but cut him up and used him as bait to catch fresh fish. People who have died of starvation are not very nourishing, having burnt up their body's food value themselves. Those who ate them arrived much nearer death than the fish-eaters (Who also gained by the fresh water contained in the fish flesh.)

* Horrifyingly prevalent in the [[Thirty Years' War]]. The crops and food were all stolen by soldiers, leaving all of Germany in a state of famine.

 

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