Are you speaking of experience, or just repeating what you read/heard? Because I keep running into that meme, but for all we know it might just be utter BS that’s been so much repeated, and is so hard to invalidate, that people take it as common knowledge.

experience

it cost me 2.5 grand usd and was legal in the jurisdiction, and i believe it ethical

besides that, i won't say

Were you worried about prion-based complications?

I was pretty sure that cooking would mostly get rid of prions, but apparently Kuru was transmitted even by cooked meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

On the other hand, most humans aren't cannibals and would only suffer from transmissible prion diseases by chance mutations.

no brain matter, to my knowledge. not a senile death either

Where?

Not the parent but I know for certain that pig flesh is routinely used as a replacement for human flesh when testing out stuff. Not sure how the physical similarities translate into similarities in taste though.

I do know that in eyewitness accounts of the firebombings of Tokyo during WWII, the smell had been described as roasted pork. Plus human meat is called long pork, so draw your own conclusions.