Reply To: Waiter’s finger was in my my soup!

Health, I will share with you the Rishonim in this dispute (which you seem totally unaware of – so better learn, instead of childishly calling others “am haaretz”):

Rambam Laws of Forbidden Foods 2:3:

Regarding humans, although it states: “And the man became a beast with a soul,” he is not included in the category of hoofed animals. Therefore, he is not included in the prohibition. Accordingly, one who partakes of meat or fat from a man – whether alive or deceased – is not liable for lashes. It is, however, forbidden because of the positive commandment. For the Torah lists the seven species of kosher wild beasts and says: “These are the beasts of which you may partake.” Implied is that any other than they may not be eaten. And a negative commandment that comes as a result of a positive commandment is considered as a positive commandment.

The Ra’uh (Kesubos 60a) is of the opinion, like the Rambam, that human meat is forbidden to eat by means of a lo sa’asei.

Ramban on Vayikra 11:3:1

The teacher Rabbi Moshe [Rambam] says that this is to exclude human flesh… but the matter is not so, because the Sages explicitly permitted biped blood and biped milk, so there is not even a rabbinic commandment to separate from it. And if its meat were forbidden, what comes from something unclean is unclean, and the Sages excluded insect blood and human blood from the prohibition against blood, and they said “the blood of an insect is like its meat” and one is flogged for it on account of its insect-ness and not on account of its blood-ness, and they made it like meat. But what they said—that eating [human flesh] is not covered by the prohibition—is to say that they are not excluding it [from the list of permitted meats] and they are permitting it.

The Rashba and the Ritvah opine,like the Ramban, that it is permitted to eat human meat.