A better way to have said that would be

I'd like to know how many people would eat human meat if it was not so taboo to eat human meat.

In other words: If there were no taboo against eating human meat, how many people would eat it?

From what I remember of the bite of finger, it had a white meat taste. Sort of like pork-turkey... I guess kinda like a hot dog (only it had no salt on/in it beyond the sweat that was on the hand).

I do think that human meat would stack up against Pork and Turkey as a delicious meat. Maybe if we ate condemned criminals. They would spend their time in prison before their execution fattening up. (OK, I realize that I am getting really out-there morbid now).

Cannibalism is a subject that fascinates me though. I have often wondered about fantastic settings in which the only thing that existed to eat was other people. Say, a planet in which there existed no other life forms at all. No plants, microbes, animals, etc. The Planet would have water, or maybe springs that had a liquid that contained nutrients that weren't in human meat... And, it would have people. So, the people would be the only things to eat, and the only things out of which tools could be made.

I do actually have a series of stories based upon this premise written. It was an interesting thought experiment to think about the types of cultures that could arise to deal with such a dilemma. And, if the inhabitants didn't know that any other life existed, (and had some cultural memory of the expression You are what you eat) then they might consider it a horrid idea to eat anything but people (should they eventually discover that other people from other planets eat dumb animals and plants that cannot even think.

If You are what you eat, then eating a stupid immobile plant or a flatulent stupid bovine would seem like the ultimate in self-condemnation.