Certainly it Has Been Believed that Someone Who Ate Meat Was Known to Suffer from a Rare Infectious Disease that Would Be Fatal and Cause Fatal Injury

 115 Years Ago Today

Tuesday 23rd of April 1907

Notorious cannibal Alferd Griner Packer dies of a stroke at the age of 65 in Deer Creek, Colorado, United States.

Packer is widely rumored to have become a vegetarian before his death. Contrary to what several believe, he suffered from a blood infection during childhood. According to the book, The Forgotten Killer (New York: W. E. Norton & Co. 1998), The Killer in the Dark (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1974), it appears that he also had been abused as a child, so how could he finally have become a vegetarian? Certainly, it has been believed that someone who ate meat was known to suffer from a rare infectious disease that would be fatal and cause fatal injury. It should be noted that the fact that the word "meat", which is traditionally associated with the white sheep that were slaughtered as meat, is not officially banned in the United States suggests that this is not a specific ethnic and religious affiliation for anyone that is not a vegetarian. Even if a few people could identify as vegetarian and even this belief became commonplace, the number of people that do not go vegetarian is probably negligible as it was only in the 1970s that the "meat problem" became public. Contrary to this, though, we believe it may have happened and that it continues for many years to this day. It is interesting to think about how the "meat problem" got.