A Cannibal Is Just About To Start Eating

yes Spud Buddy is about to start eating some of his own flesh and blood, 

he is the mascot for the Idaho Potato Commission, which promotes the cultivation and sale of Idaho's most famous food product, and as such is friendly and helpful, but, a recent Tweet showed the grinning cannibal eating fellow potatoes as French fries, a cannibal indeed! worse is to come, KTVB 7 News argues that this act was not only revolting, but a crime under Idaho law:

Under Idaho's "Mayhem" clause (Title 18: Crimes and punishments):

CANNIBALISM DEFINED — PUNISHMENT. (1) Any person who wilfully ingests the flesh or blood of a human being is guilty of cannibalism.

(2) It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of the provisions of this section that the action was taken under extreme life-threatening conditions as the only apparent means of survival.

(3) Cannibalism is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding fourteen (14) years.

Spud Buddy appears to have options other than potatoes on his plate, so he can't claim that cannibalism was necessary for survival.

photograph Idaho Potato Commission, a cannibalistic potato whatever next?