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| “ | I ate someone with a tattoo once. Once. The ink made the meat taste like shit. | „ |
| ~ Jeffrey Dahmer, an infamous cannibal and serial killer. |
Cannibalism is the practice of someone or something eating the same species as itself. Humans have practiced cannibalism for thousands of years, and in some ancient societies, it was considered perfectly acceptable, much like human sacrifice. However, during modern times, cannibalism has become more associated with mental disorder and is considered violent, barbaric, and depraved by most of society today.
Several noted serial killers have practiced cannibalism.
Known cannibals
- Albert Fish
- Alexander Pearce
- Andrei Chikatilo
- Armin Meiwes
- Arthur Shawcross
- Big Lurch
- Boone Helm
- Bruce McArthur (possibly)
- Carroll Cole
- Chan Man-lok
- Daniel Rakowitz
- David Harker
- Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
- Dorángel Vargas
- Edmund Kemper
- François l'Olonnais
- Fritz Haarmann
- Hadden Clark
- Idi Amin
- Issei Sagawa
- Jack the Ripper
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Joachim Kroll
- Joseph Roy Metheny
- Joshua Blahyi (General Butt Naked)
- Leopold II of Belgium
- Luka Magnotta
- Mohammed Soussi
- Mr Cruel (Possibly)
- Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
- Omaima Nelson
- Oskar Dirlewanger
- Ottis Toole
- Pazuzu Algarad
- Ratu Udre Udre
- Richard Trenton Chase
- Robert Pickton
- Stephen Griffiths
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
- Vassili Poyarkov
- Vincent Weiguang Li
- Yoshio Tachibana
Other incidents of cannibalism
- There have been reports of Japanese soldiers eating the organs of Chinese soldiers and prisoners of war during the Rape of Nanking.
- During the last few years of the Second Congo War, various rebel groups carried out a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Mbuti pygmies known as Effacer le tableau ("erasing the board") and multiple reports document instances of rebels hunting down and eating the pygmies, allegedly because they believed them to be "subhuman." Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, successfully appealed to the United Nations Security Council to recognize cannibalism as both a war crime and a crime against humanity.
- DINA, the secret police of Chile during the Augusto Pinochet regime, were widely renowned for their extreme sadism and brutality. There are documented reports of DINA forcing prisoners of the concentration camps they ran to cannibalize other prisoners when they died as a form of psychological torture.
- There are widespread oral reports, and some official documentation, of cannibalism being practiced in various forms during the Great Chinese Famine (a product of dictator Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward") from 1959 to 1961. Due to the scale of the famine, the resulting cannibalism has been described as "on a scale unprecedented in the history of the 20th century".
- Many members of the Revolutionary United Front practiced cannibalism during the Sierra Leone Civil War.