“This is going to be normalized at some point, the way our society’s going and the direction we’re going,” she warned.

An Idaho state representative wants to build out the state’s law against cannibalism over fears that the composting of human remains could lead to humans consuming other humans.

Republican Heather Scott floated a bill on Thursday that would make it illegal to serve “the flesh and blood of another human being” to someone who does not know or consent to it, The Idaho Statesman reports. Idaho already outlaws cannibalism and is the only state to do so, even though other states have laws that punish abuse of corpses.

Human composting is legal in some states because it can be more eco-friendly than other methods like cremation. But rather than target composting, which would require a rewrite of rules for morticians, Scott figured it would be easier to expand the cannibalism law.

She was apparently inspired by a clip from a prank TV show she had seen, in which personalities pretended to feed people human flesh in sausage links. “They didn’t tell the people, they fed it to them,” she told the Statesman.

    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
      18·
      11 months ago

      I had a friend in college who always said " The worst thing I could say is that I’d kill you and not eat you." Somehow this was endearing and disturbing all at once. I do hope she’s doing well.

    • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
      9·
      11 months ago

      Welcome to the hell of living alongside the Republican Party. Don’t try to make it make sense, you’ll only hurt yourself.

      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 months ago

        I literally went crazy trying to make sense of everything when I was younger. I’m hopping in twenty more years I- tidal collapse? Never mind then.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    How fucking stupid can someone be?

    BY CITING A TRU TV SCRIPTED “PRANK” AS REASON TO WASTE TIME AND MONEY ON SHIT LIKE THIS.

    The fuck dude. The fuck.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      The greener option almost always represents change. The funeral business is very large, and probably one of the least ethical businesses around. They take advantage of grieving people and charge them way too much money to be filles with preservatives and stuck in the ground. It’s a big business, and change is bad for existing business, though it’ll create all new businesses that take advantage of those people.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        In fact, if this lawmaker was being paid by some funeral industry lobby, I wouldn’t be even a little surprised.

  • Gigasser@lemmy.world
    81·
    11 months ago

    I mean the only issue I can think of with human composting is maybe potential prison diseases if the compost is used to farm food.

    • Johandea@feddit.nu
      5·
      11 months ago

      The risk of prion diseases are low. Prions are proteins and do biodegrade. The product of composting is dirt, which we -normally- don’t eat, which lowers the risk even lower.

      This Canadian study found a low risk of BSE (aka mad cow disease) after composting BSE infected biomaterials. They concluded that it’s a viable option for disposal of such waste.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 months ago

    This is me, a reasonable normal human person, expecting something useful to be said by a republiQan.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    51·
    11 months ago

    So I guess the obvious conclusion is that she considers compost delicious? Why else would she make that connection?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      I want the skin of mine as the binding of a book. And the contents of the book will be a novel I commission about the amputation of my leg.