Also also, if I'm understanding this right, he didn't actually get backlash for being a literal cannibal, you know, the most serious point in all of this, but instead he got backlash for accidentally eating a fellow Ukrainian instead of an evil enemy Russian?
Also, prions, one of the deadliest cannibalism infections, are pretty damn heat stable. You can grill the shit out of a burger and still get mad cow disease, pretty sure that applies to human-human transmission too.