Why don't zombies eat each other?

Zombies prefer fresh meat. Would you eat a roast beef sandwich that had been sitting on the counter (room temperature) for a couple of years?

They may be stupid, but even zombies have standards.

Their biological disposition demands flesh of the living.

Chances are, they're also not aware of one another.

Same reason why humans don't eat each other it's Canablism

Because god said "Nay, zombies have to be a contradiction to themselves and they have to eat those that are not like them."
ROFL idk XD

"Ghouls have a remarkable ability to reject carrion in favour of freshly killed meat. A human body that has been dead longer than twelve to eighteen hours will be rejected as food. The same goes for cadavers that have been embalmed or otherwise preserved. Whether this has anything to do with "taste" is not yest certain. It may have to do with smell or, perhaps, another instinct that has not been discovered."
-from The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

Zombies are deprived of any form of intelligence and only go on the most basic of needs- to feed, and some how they have very sophisticated hunting instincts. The brain is the only useful part of their body and it lets them know that living meat is good and dead meat is not. They must be very sensitive to heat if they are attracted to living creatures or at the very least, something that has been dead for a few hours. Zombies will not eat eachother because their flesh has been dead too long.
Once one of the living has been infected, it takes 23 hours to become a full fledged zombie, and by that time, their flesh will be considered inedible by their own kind.

Because zombies are never fresh they have all passed their expiration date.

the like "live" flesh.

Because they don't have any brains?

there dead so they would taste rotton

Its too much of the Saminila thing.

Would you eat food that is dead, spoiled and rotting away? Neither would they!

They need live brains.

I've wondered this too..

It's mostly a question with zombies like the ones in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later where zombies aren't so much undead as they are just infected, bloodthirsty people who eventually starve to death. It seemed like the logical next step after not having any more uninfected people would be to eat their own.

because 'fresh is best'

.. because they're spoiled ;)

They taste really bad to themselves.

They like live flesh???

Well I'm a cannibal, but even I wouldn't want to eat a nasty-ass zombie! lol

maybe deep deep down even if its not living anymore-they have a heart enough to not eat they're own kind?
or they might have one living brain cell that tells them that if they want to take over the world they only need to kill the living?

I saw it on the Playboy channel

who said they don't?

The theory that zombies wouldnt eat cold meat is null. If a zombie has enough energy to move about, their bodies would not be cold. The metabolism required for muscular movement will generate heat. Theoretically, the first zombie in the world would attack and eat someone for many hours (up to 24 hours or more) before their bodies would get cold.
Not too much would remain of his feeding session after that, and if the victim would turn into a zombie anytime before that, the two zombies would eat each other until at least one of the zombies is unable to move any longer. On this basis, there will never be more than one zombie at a time.

True biological warfare regarding the creation of zombies in an enemy city is highly ineffective if even at all possible. You'll get better results mailing letters with anthrax in them.

Because as a virus controlled host the duty of the host is to infect other organisms. They eat flesh as a way of quickening the progression of the infection by killing the organism.

because they are zombies, they are dead, but they have ETHICS

HAH because they don't have any brains to eat!!

HAH because they dont have any brains to eat!!

because it would destroy all zombie movies

They have a sense of solidarity with each other and would never dream of breaking rank. It would be immoral for a zombie to eat another zombie, just like humans don't like eating other humans.

They have a sense of solidarity with each other and would never dream of breaking rank. It would be immoral for a zombie to eat another zombie, just like humans don't like eating other humans.

I love how you all ask the same question as I. However I must say your answers are so amusing that I´m actually on the floor Laughing My Ass Off!!

I love how you discuss the zombies way of thinking, morally and instinctively, and that you discuss wether or not it is because the meat is dead or not or if its because zombies are gross, I also love that you actually make it sound like you have scientific results behind your facts!

My following questions are: How can the zombies move around if their tissue is dead? AND if the tissue is NOT dead then there shouldnt be a reason for them to not eat one another. (I highly doubt that zombies got moral problems about eating their kindrens). And in some cases zombies are out to get brains right? But you talk about shooting their brains out as the only way of killing them... shouldnt the infected person already have lost it´s brain if it became a zombie?

The infection a zombie suffers takes over its body. There is nothing left of the human being once said infection has taken hold.

Like most infections, its sole purpose is to spread and survive. The parts of the body required to determine the difference between infected and non-infected flesh are therefore active within the corpse the infection has taken hold of.

The infection causes them to seek out uninfected flesh for the purpose of infecting it and spreading the disease.

Contrary to popular belief, zombies have little interest in actually eating beyond a basic instinct triggered by the activity in the brain and brainstem. They cannot tell when they are full, they do not feel hungry. They just eat. Sometimes this can be to the point of their stomachs and intestines bursting, but they will continue anyway. There have been cases of infected individuals continuing to eat flesh after their abdomens have split, the items they have just devoured simply spill from the wound.

It's all part of the affect the disease has on neurology.

Sources:
Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide
Research on neurology (wide scope of)
Research on human behaviour.
Research on common patterns in spread of disease, particularly those paracitic in nature.
Other research on zombies (Max Brooks is partially inaccurate)

Qualifications:
PhD in Zombie Survival.

Apparently, zombies have some sort of "hive-mind" thing going on, so they will only eat another zombie if it has been killed (again?). Yeah, I don't really get it either.

Have you ever tasted sombie...yuk! no wonder they don't eat each other...double yuk

because that would be mingen.

I think that they are mostly VEGANS. All that other stuff is take out.

Resident Evil suggests that zombies which haven't eaten anything for a long time will feast on each other as a last resort. It seems to be an instinct thing, and while dead meat might sustain them for a bit, it would appear that a living human's meat is best to whatever it is that constitutes as their system.

Dungeon & Dragons classify the undead, and a ghoul in those terms is a different kind of zombie, one that eats dead meat only, if I recall right. Their decomposition process is much slower then that of a normal zombie, and are favoured by sorcerers over zombies because of the physical constitution.

That's a $100 question! +

maybe because they even look tasteless to eachother gross!

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