Peas, not people: Armin Meiwes said human flesh tastes like pork

Notorious cannibal Armin Meiwes has shocked prison warders – by converting to a green-voting vegetarian.

Meiwes, who ate a man he met online, has been elected the leader of a Green Party group in the prison where he is serving life.

The 45-year-old discusses environmental policies with murderers, paedophiles and drug dealers every week in a maximum-security jail in Germany. Meiwes has sworn not to eat meat in his environmentalist role, according to one prisoner.


‘He finds the idea of factory farming as distasteful as his crime was,’ said the convict. ‘He now sticks to vegetarian dishes.’

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In 2001, Meiwes posted a message on the Internet asking for a man to slaughter and eat.

He was answered by Bernd Brandes, who had posted his own ad offering: ‘Dinner – or your dinner’.

Meiwes killed, filleted, and froze his victim and ate bits of him for ten months. He was handed eight years in prison in 2004 but two years later his sentence was upped to life after a retrial found him guilty of murder.

Gerhard Kaehler, a Green Party representative who has been working with the convicts, said: ‘Armin is no fool. The group respects him, that is why he was voted leader.’

Although Meiwes claims to be reformed, the Green Party leadership wants nothing to do with him. One official, Kai Klose, said Meiwes is not and never was a member of the party.

Mr Kahler added: ‘To me he is a normal convict who has committed an incomprehensible crime.’

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