Food:

     The Fore are known as a horticultural group, one's that take part in agriculture and gardening. It was acceptable to cook and eat human flesh of a dead person. When resources became scarce because of increase in population and cultivation and rid of forest that decreased the number of animals in the area, women turned to eating human flesh. Among the Fore, there were gender differences in food consumption. While the women ate human flesh to live (but was not preferred), men were able to eat the preferred needed protein that was available. That is why the disease Kuru, caused from eating human flesh (brains), showed mostly in women.

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