A word of warning. If you're easily offended by cannibalism, death, torture and fascinating facts about the human body,

this series may not be for you. Therefore, listener discretion is advised. Cannibalism.

Could you eat a whole human being?

With the help of a doctor, a scientist and a chef, I set out to see if it's possible.

Cannibalism Part 18 Waste If a human was only made of meat, a cannibal could shave them like a rotisserie of

tasty kebab meat and dine like a king. But they aren't, as 46% of the human body is used to

process various forms of waste.

2013 Italy.

Lina Rensi beat his mother Maria to death, cut her body into pieces with a sore,

froze the meat, and the neighbours only became suspicious when the intestines he popped on the grill

caught fire. Being Italian it was suggested he was making the local dish

Torchenlli a sausage stuffed with

awful tomato, onion, basil and parsley. Only this time he wasn't using lamb's

intestines. He used his mamas.

What parts of a corpse a cannibal eats is dependent on their culture,

as although we may wretch at an eyeball being burst by the Bedouin,

they would rightly wretch at what we put into a hackers or a hot dog.

So the waste, excluding the skin, kidneys, liver, lungs and the blood, which we've already

covered.

The excretory or urinary system includes the bladder and the intestines, as well as the rectum and the colon.

Delicious.

As a passive biological system, which unlike walking and talking, requires us to consciously do nothing. Our excretory system

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