Idaho Republican's cannibalism panic sparked in part by debunked hoax video

An Idaho GOP lawmaker is worried about cannibalism in her state, the East Idaho News reported.

Rep. Heather Scott introduced a bill this Thursday to expand the state's cannibalism ban and said that she fears cannibalism is on the rise due to an increase in human composting.

“This is going to be normalized at some point, the way our society’s going and the direction we’re going,” Scott said.

The bill would ban someone giving another person “the flesh or blood of a human being” without that person’s “knowledge or consent.”

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Some states have legalized human composting as a way to practice more "sustainable" ways than burial and reduce a person's carbon footprint.

“I didn’t want to see that in my Home Depot stores,” Scott said before claiming that she watched a clip from a television show where a chef fed human sausage to contestants -- which inspired her to sponsor the bill. According to the Idaho Statesman, the clip is from a prank TV show where they pretended to serve people human flesh.

"Scott also sent a link to a video featuring a Chinese official denying that his country had sold canned human flesh to people in Zambia. The story was a hoax, spread with fake photos of butchery, according to news reports from 2016," the East Idaho News' report stated.