BERLIN, Thursday 2 September 2010 (AFP) - Vegetarian activists in Germany's Berlin have caused a stir with an advertising campaign for a new restaurant seeking human meat "donors" and "open-minded" surgeons.

"The Vegetarian Federation wanted with this striking human meat campaign to draw attention to the millions of people who suffer from the consumption of meat," it said in a statement Thursday after revealing the hoax.

In the advertisements and Internet videos, a mysterious restaurant called Flime is said to be opening soon offering human meat on its menu and seeks people to supply the eatery.