Reports of cannibalism and the sale of human flesh continued into the early 20th century, up to the final years of Imperial China.[46] Various cases were reported during the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879,[47] with eyewitnesses reporting the sale of human flesh in markets and butcher shops and various rumours indicating that it might also have been served in restaurants.[48]

In 1936, a severe drought in Sichuan worsened by the ongoing civil war led to a famine killing up to five million people and causing large-scale cannibalism.[55] Human flesh became a traded commodity, with a higher black-market price charged for fresh flesh from a person killed for food compared to flesh from a corpse.[56]

Outside of famines, the flesh of executed criminals was frequently sold for consumption in China, a traditional custom that lasted until the 19th century.[49]

During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), local governments' documents revealed hundreds of incidents of cannibalism for ideological reasons, including large-scale cannibalism during the Guangxi Massacre.[59] Cannibal acts occurred at public events organized by local Communist Party officials, with people taking part in them to prove their revolutionary passion.

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The indigenous population of Taiwan (then known as Formosa) repeatedly rebelled against Chinese rule. The Chinese army reacted drastically by not only killing suspected rebels but sometimes also eating and selling their flesh.[50][51] The American journalist James W. Davidson wrote:

One horrible feature of the campaign against the savages was the sale by the Chinese in open market of savage flesh.... After killing a savage, the head was commonly severed from the body and exhibited.... The body was then either divided among its captors and eaten, or sold to wealthy Chinese and even to high officials, who disposed of it in a like manner. The kidney, liver, heart, and soles of the feet were considered the most desirable portions, and were ordinarily cut up into very small pieces, boiled, and eaten somewhat in the form of soup. The flesh and bones were boiled, and the latter made into a sort of jelly.... During the outbreak of 1891, savage flesh was brought in – in baskets – the same as pork, and sold like pork in the open markets of Tokoham before the eyes of all, foreigners included. Some of the flesh was even sent to Amoy [on the mainland] to be placed on sale there. It was frequently on sale in the small Chinese villages near the border, and often before the very eyes of peaceful groups of savages who happened to be at the place.[52]

Newspaper reports also document the open sale of indigenous flesh.[51] Robert des Rotours has interpreted these acts as due to "contempt for an inferior race", who were seen as so inferior that they could be treated like animals.[53]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836254&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49679946)

The indigenous population of Taiwan (then known as Formosa) repeatedly rebelled against Chinese rule. The Chinese army reacted drastically by not only killing suspected rebels but sometimes also eating and selling their flesh.[50][51] The American journalist James W. Davidson wrote:

One horrible feature of the campaign against the savages was the sale by the Chinese in open market of savage flesh.... After killing a savage, the head was commonly severed from the body and exhibited.... The body was then either divided among its captors and eaten, or sold to wealthy Chinese and even to high officials, who disposed of it in a like manner. The kidney, liver, heart, and soles of the feet were considered the most desirable portions, and were ordinarily cut up into very small pieces, boiled, and eaten somewhat in the form of soup. The flesh and bones were boiled, and the latter made into a sort of jelly.... During the outbreak of 1891, savage flesh was brought in – in baskets – the same as pork, and sold like pork in the open markets of Tokoham before the eyes of all, foreigners included. Some of the flesh was even sent to Amoy [on the mainland] to be placed on sale there. It was frequently on sale in the small Chinese villages near the border, and often before the very eyes of peaceful groups of savages who happened to be at the place.[52]

Newspaper reports also document the open sale of indigenous flesh.[51] Robert des Rotours has interpreted these acts as due to "contempt for an inferior race", who were seen as so inferior that they could be treated like animals.[53]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836254&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49679958)

The consumption of kidnapped strangers or purchased slaves could hardly be due to hatred, and indeed the British anthropologist Charles Kingsley Meek found that the most frequent rationale he heard from cannibals or former cannibals in northern Nigeria was that human flesh was eaten "purely as meat". People did not want to waste an opportunity to eat good meat when they saw one, and the lives of enemies or outsiders were of no concern to them.[57] His colleague Percy Amaury Talbot [fr] observed the same among the Igbo and some other inhabitants of southern Nigeria: human flesh was eaten because of a "great longing for meat". Most people considered meat a rare luxury and saw no reason to be squeamish about how they got it as long as it did not come from relatives or friends. Moreover, human flesh was preferred over that of animals for gastronomic reasons: it was considered the tastiest of all meats because of its "succulence" and sweetness (followed by monkey meat as second best). Young children were most appreciated, since "the younger the person, the tenderer are the 'joints'".[58][59]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836254&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49679965)

🇩🇪 Europe

🇩🇪 Stefan R. (Germany, 2020)

Met victim online in a cannibalism fetish forum.

Killed and ate parts of the victim in Berlin.

Arrested in 2020, convicted in 2022.

👉 This is one of the most recent confirmed criminal cannibalism cases in Europe.

(Previous famous case: Armin Meiwes, 2001.)

🇺🇸 North America

🇺🇸 Austin Harrouff (U.S., 2016)

Killed a couple and bit the victim’s face.

Prosecutors alleged cannibalistic behavior; defense cited severe mental illness.

Found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2023.

🇺🇸 Taylor Schabusiness (U.S., 2022)

Murdered and dismembered victim.

No confirmed cannibalism in court findings, though mutilation occurred.

There have been occasional very isolated incidents in the U.S. involving mental illness or drug psychosis, but confirmed eating of human flesh is extremely rare in recent decades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836254&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49680461)

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In 1936, a severe drought in Sichuan worsened by the ongoing civil war led to a famine killing up to five million people and causing large-scale cannibalism.[55] Human flesh became a traded commodity, with a higher black-market price charged for fresh flesh from a person killed for food compared to flesh from a corpse.[56]

Outside of famines, the flesh of executed criminals was frequently sold for consumption in China, a traditional custom that lasted until the 19th century.[49]

During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), local governments' documents revealed hundreds of incidents of cannibalism for ideological reasons, including large-scale cannibalism during the Guangxi Massacre.[59] Cannibal acts occurred at public events organized by local Communist Party officials, with people taking part in them to prove their revolutionary passion.

The indigenous population of Taiwan (then known as Formosa) repeatedly rebelled against Chinese rule. The Chinese army reacted drastically by not only killing suspected rebels but sometimes also eating and selling their flesh.[50][51] The American journalist James W. Davidson wrote:

One horrible feature of the campaign against the savages was the sale by the Chinese in open market of savage flesh.... After killing a savage, the head was commonly severed from the body and exhibited.... The body was then either divided among its captors and eaten, or sold to wealthy Chinese and even to high officials, who disposed of it in a like manner. The kidney, liver, heart, and soles of the feet were considered the most desirable portions, and were ordinarily cut up into very small pieces, boiled, and eaten somewhat in the form of soup. The flesh and bones were boiled, and the latter made into a sort of jelly.... During the outbreak of 1891, savage flesh was brought in – in baskets – the same as pork, and sold like pork in the open markets of Tokoham before the eyes of all, foreigners included. Some of the flesh was even sent to Amoy [on the mainland] to be placed on sale there. It was frequently on sale in the small Chinese villages near the border, and often before the very eyes of peaceful groups of savages who happened to be at the place.[52]

Newspaper reports also document the open sale of indigenous flesh.[51]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836254&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49680623)

But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is adding insult to injury, is it? Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?—what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating? And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars? It is only within the last month or two that that society passed a resolution to patronize nothing but steel pens.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara

Ctrl+F "Cannibalism in Samara" here and you can see the photo is appropriately captioned as being from Samara.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%931922

Regardless, this is nothing like the Chinese state sanctioning turning prisoners in to meat in the 19th century or Taiwanese aborigines into meat in the early 20th century. And certainly nothing like the eating of human flesh for fun (not out of hunger) during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836254&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49680725)

Human cannibalism occurred in Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution in 1968. According to Zheng Yi, a notable Chinese writer who conducted detailed research on the topic in the late 1980s and later smuggled some copies of official documents to the United States, at least 137 people—perhaps hundreds more—were eaten by others and thousands of people participated in the cannibalism.[1][3][4][6][5][9] Documents also record a variety of forms of cannibalism, including eating people as an after-dinner snack, slicing off the meat in big parties, dividing up the flesh so each person could take a large chunk home, barbecuing or roasting the liver, and so on.[5][10][12]

In 2016 and 2017, official archives were published, which contain details about the massacres and cannibalism; the archives show that at least 302 people were eaten, and tens of thousands of other people participated in the cannibalism.[10][11] According to Yan Lebin (晏乐斌), a member of the Ministry of Public Security who was part of the official investigation teams in the 1980s:[1]

In 1968, 38 people in Wuxuan County were eaten, and 113 officials of the county participated in eating human flesh, hearts and livers. Chen Guorong, a peasant from Guigang County who happened to pass by Wuxuan, was caught and killed by local militia because he was fat; his heart and liver were taken out while his flesh was distributed to 20 people. A female militia leader ate 6 human livers in total, and cut the genitals of 5 men and soaked them in alcohol which she would drink later, claiming that these organs were beneficial to her health. The behavior of eating human flesh, hearts and livers occurred in many counties of Guangxi including Wuxuan, Wuming, Shangsi, Guigang, Qinzhou, Guiping, and Lingyun ... After the revolutionary committee was established in Shangsi County, a "killing conference" was held at Pingshan Square (平山广场) on September 1, 1968, during which more than 10 officials and civilians were beaten to death. After the conference, a committee member, Li Hao (黎郝), removed the hearts and livers from the corpses, sauteing them and preparing them as dishes for other representatives who attended the conference.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836254&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49680749)