[muir_redwoods]

Is there an actual difference between the flesh of a pig and that of a Saracen? Apart from the dryness that is.

[allmendream]

Less likely to catch a disease from eating the flesh of the pig I would imagine.

People have all the diseases that can infect another person. Eat someone who had Hepatitis - get Hepatitis, etc, etc, etc.

Sort of like mucking about in Egyptian tombs isn't such a good idea. Breathing in spores of microbes that have evolved over the last few thousand years to digest dessicated human flesh? What could go wrong?