laststandonzombieisland

Something I have always wondered, and Grantland has conducted an investigation into:

Well……Find out what they have to say.

” 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:…”

But as the author of a Zombie Book myself, i Have to state that they do….at least in my novel.