How are the people of Montaigne's society inferior to the cannibals?

Montaigne points out various ways in which Europeans are inferior to the cannibals he
describes. The cannibals, he says, are much healthier. No witnesses have observed any of them to
be "paralytic, bleary-eyed, toothless, or crooked with age." This may be because their
lifestyle is pure and, in particular, their cooking is simple and wholesome.

Montaigne also says that, though the cannibals are always fighting, their wars are
"noble and generous," undertaken for the purposes of chivalry and valor rather than
for the conquest of new lands. They are not interested in such conquests, being innocent of
avarice: "they only covet so much as their natural necessities require." Because of
this, they live in a true spirit of fraternity with one another and are innocent of
envy.

The essay even turns the chief charge of barbarity levelled against the
cannibals to their advantage. Their sense of honor is so keen that:

There is not a man amongst them who had not rather be killed and eaten, than
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