“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.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      24·
      9 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·
        9 months ago

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