The issur of eating human flesh is subject to a machlokes rishonim. The Rambam in hilchos maachalos asuros, perek 2 halacha 3 says it’s an issur aseh, the magid mishna there quotes the Raavad, Rashba and Ramban as arguing and saying that meat of a living human has no issur mayikar hadin, though the Rosh in ksubos perek 5 siman 19 (daf 60a) says that there would be a maris ayin issue in some circumstances, but he too holds like the Ramban and others, the Ra’ah holds that there’s actually an issur dioraysa (quoted by magid mishna there as well as the ritva and sheeta mikubetzes in ksubos there). The Ramban (quoted by magid mishna) does point out though, that there would be an issur hanaa midioraysa of flesh from a dead person, as learned from a gzaira shava from egla arufa.
So we have a three way machlokes rishonim regarding living human flesh, some hold one violates an aseh, some hold there is only a maris ayin issue and some hold there’s an issur lav dioraysa.
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