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A zombie's digestive tract is completely dormant. The complex system that processes food, extracts nutrition, and excretes waste does not factor into a zombie's physiology. Autopsies conducted on neutralized undead have shown that their 'food' lies in its original, undigested state at all sections of the tract.
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Read More »Still, dodge he did. While it’s certainly possible he didn’t answer because the question has never come up for debate during lulls in marathon writers’ room sessions either devising new ways for Carl to be placed in mortal peril or considering more canonical debates over the function of the undead gastrointestinal system* (why not knock out both by having the kid stumble upon a zombie hiding in an outhouse?), it felt like maybe Mazzara was just avoiding opening that particular can of undigested worms. [*Remember when they cut open that zombie’s stomach to search for Sophia’s remains? The show’s characters apparently believe an undead GI tract still works. Hmmm. And: Is it instructive that tracker Daryl chose to dig around in the zombie’s body cavity looking for masticated chunks of the little girl rather than scour the nearby ground for extant piles of flesh-flecked zom-turds? Hmmmmm.] So what’s the answer? A brief office discussion yielded no satisfying conclusion; some thought that a zombie’s constant search for “sustenance” implies that their “eating” constitutes a bodily function identical to that of their living human incarnation, and their “food” must be handled in the same way, thus: They “shit.” (Though whether this elimination is actually digested matter or merely raw material traveling through whatever is left of a zombie’s gastrointestinal system was not explored; is this just splitting hairs, or a crucial distinction? The “necrobiological process vs. simple gravity question” might be a separate debate entirely.) Others think zombies “chew” more than “eat,” just gnashing away at any available flesh with no concern for any “nutrition” the incidental “feast” may provide, not unlike a ravenous birthday party of 10 furiously searching for the bottom of an Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Bowl. With no definitive answer forthcoming, we turned to the Internet, which, unsurprisingly, finds itself yearning for closure of the very same existential question: First, a trip to Yahoo! Answers, perhaps the most democratic forum known to humankind: “No. Zombie’s bodies don’t function like living humans. They don’t live off eating the flesh of the living, they just have a desire to bite things that are alive. Whatever enters their stomach doesn’t get digested, it just sits there.” Can we all agree this response lacks the intellectual rigor we’re so desperately searching for? Let’s try a headier forum, one where it would be more likely to encounter a Ph.D. candidate in Zombie Studies. MetalFilter user “prinado”:
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Read More »The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (Amazon) asserts that zombies do not retain the digestive functions of living humans: (p. 11-12) “Recent evidence has once and for all discounted the theory that human flesh is the fuel for the undead. A zombie’s digestive tract is completely dormant. The complex system that processes food, extracts nutrition, and excretes waste does not factor into a zombie’s physiology. Autopsies conducted on neutralized undead have shown that their ‘food’ lies in its original, undigested state at all sections of the tract. This partially chewed, slowly rotting matter will continue to accumulate, as the zombie devours more victims, until it is forced through the anus, or literally bursts through the stomach or intestinal lining. While this more dramatic example of non-digestion is rare, hundreds of eyewitness reports have confirmed undead to have distended bellies. One captured and dissected specimen was found to contain 211 pounds of flesh within its system! Even rarer accounts have confirmed that zombies continue to feed long after their digestive tracts have exploded from within.” Ah! So zombies are more likely to explode from the accumulated mass of devoured material than poop out said material. Case closed!
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