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.

  • @reagansrottencorpse
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    259 months ago

    She was inspired by a fictional TV prank show she watched. WHAT THE FUCK

    • TigrisMorte
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      99 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
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        49 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.