On the other hand, it is true that the dor revi’i does say that one should choose to eat the pig flesh instead of the human flesh in a case of mortal danger (I suppose because he thinks that it is so disgusting and immoral to eat the human flesh that it can’t be that that would be preferred, I have yet to see the piece inside, unfortunately), which is seemingly an extremely problematic psak, as we have a klal from brachos 19b, based on the pasuk in mishlay 21,30, that our morals and sensibilities cannot override an issur dioraysa, and indeed, I’ve heard in the name of one of the greatest roshei yeshiva of recent generations that one should eat the human flesh based on this, although I heard a counter argument from another rosh yeshiva that the inyan to mitigate issurim in sakana in yoma 83 is a din dirabbanan, and min hatorah, one could violate anything to save his life and since we are now dealing with an issur dirabbanan to eat the technically more chamur issur, the klal of kavod habreeyos being docheh dirabbanans (brachos 19b) can come into play if it would be so offensive to the dying person to eat the human (as, this rosh yeshiva allegedly argued, it should be), and he’d therefore be allowed to eat the pig instead.
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