Does the sentence make sense?

Matthew Wai"Cannibals kill, skin, cook, and eat humans as what butchers do to poultry."

"Cannibals kill, skin, cook and eat humans, as butchers do to poultry."

Click here to see what a native English teacher said, please scroll down to read her answers to my two follow-up questions.

She said both of the following do not make sense.

"Cannibals kill, skin, cook, and eat humans as butchers do to poultry."

"Cannibals kill, skin, cook, and eat humans as what butchers do to poultry."

But both are clear to me. Should I trust her

Matthew Wai"Cannibals kill, skin, cook, and eat humans as butchers do to poultry.""Cannibals kill, skin, cook, and eat humans as what butchers do to poultry."

I agree that the second sentence (with "what") does not work. It is understandable, but not grammatical. I think the first sentence would be improved by the deletion of to, ma

Part of the confusion seems to be the thought that because "people do poultry" makes no sense by itself, that any sentence that contains that phrase must be wrong.
For examples of the as X do Y type of construction in use, go to http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ and enter as

"Peter advises, supports and subsidizes John at present as Mary did to Jane in the past."
Do you think it is better to delete "to"?

Matthew Wai"Peter advises, supports and subsidizes John at present as Mary did to Jane in the past."Do you think it is better to delete "to"?

Either delete it or replace it with "for" since those things are all for the benefit of the recipient of those actions.

The person who told you that the sentences make no sense was exaggerating. Even the

BarbaraPAThe person who told you that the sentences make no sense was exaggerating. Even the non-grammatical one with "what" is understandable.

The person who told me that the sentences make no sense is an experienced professional teacher.

Even such a teacher is unreliable, whom else can I trust?

If you come to a forum like this and several native speakers say "It's understandable, even if it's not fully grammatical" I think you can trust the native speakers.

I am sure Ms. Baker is very knowledgeable, but even experts sometimes make mistakes. I believe that in this instance Ms. Baker is mistaken.
If you ask Ms. Baker a question, and you would like a second opinion, by all means post your question here too. If we give you the same answer it is probably right. If we disagree with her you will have to dig a little deeper. You can ask ask us to explain

In a word, "do" followed by an object can be used also as a pro-verb instead of only as an action verb, correct?