Is Eating Meat As Bad As Eating People? The popular forensic biologist Mark Benecke, who has long been committed to the animal welfare organization Peta, recently drew this comparison.
In Berlin, a court case is currently causing a stir, in which a particularly brutal crime is being tried: A math teacher is said to have killed another man, he dismembered the corpse and apparently intended to eat the meat. A murder case like something out of a horror movie. But while most of the people here think of the victim and their relatives and shudder at the cold-bloodedness of the perpetrator, the animal welfare organization Peta took the opportunity to make a statement.
The press release also includes the popular TV crime biologist Mark Benecke, who has been committed to animal welfare for many years. “I suggest to all those who are appalled about cannibalism cases to eat a vegetable diet,” he is quoted there as saying. “The fact that we see cannibalism as the worst thing there is has more to do with our own need for demarcation than with the horror of the matter: We want to suppress the fact that we also eat living things. Eat animals and eat people – sensibly there is between there is no difference in either. “
Eating meat as bad as cannibalism?
Many Berliners are bothered by the less sensitive occasion and time for the statement. Especially since Peta also provocatively calls for “plant-based food for the alleged cannibal, but also a broad social change to a vegan diet”. Mark Benecke himself had been a vegetarian for a long time until he decided in 2018 to even be vegan in the future.
He became known in Germany above all for his work in solving several criminal cases that caused a stir nationwide. He can also be seen frequently in television programs such as “Medical Detectives” or “Galileo Mystery” and is the author of several successful non-fiction books on the subjects of criminology, medicine and biology.
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