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Cannibalism haunts the ruins of capitalism

We can thread the genealogy through our long history, which is imbricated in ongoing racial capitalism that literally eats our bodies to feed wealth and deepen inequality

Bigger than Sharpeville: Story of South Africa’s worst apartheid-era massacre retold

Review: Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre by Mignonne Breier

Kenyan student arrested after apparently eating house mate’s heart

Kenyan student arrested after apparently eating house mate’s heart

A 21-year-old college student from Kenya, accused of killing a house mate, says he ate the victim’s heart and part of his brain after he died.

Starving chickens resort to cannibalism

An SPCA inspector says 3000 broiler chickens have had to be euthanased after being found to have resorted to cannabilism after being left to starve.

Donate your organs …for dinner

Would you sacrifice your testicles, stomach fat or ears for high-class cuisine?

French cannibal prisoner fried cellmate’s lungs

A prisoner who killed his cellmate and devoured his lung with fried onions put France’s troubled prison system under critical new scrutiny on Tuesday.

I’m no cannibal, Taylor tells war-crimes trial

Liberia’s former president, Charles Taylor, on Monday denied that he had ever eaten human flesh or ordered his fighters to do so.

Chef jailed in British cannibalism trial

A British chef, a former Mr Gay UK, who killed his boyfriend and then cooked a section of his flesh was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.