Mourned Beef

Unverified, unvetted postings on social media used photographs from video game promotions to advance tropes about China's food industr...

Unverified, unvetted postings on social media used photographs from video game promotions to advance tropes about China's food industry.

ORIGIN:In May 2016, a Facebook post claiming that China was making corned beef with dead bodies and selling the products to Africa started circulating on social media, along with a series of photos purportedly showing the morbid operation.

Different versions of the above-displayed Facebook post have been around for many years, with a variety of gruesome images purportedly showing dead bodies being made into corned beef. These photographs come from a number of sources, but at least one of them was taken from a 2012 marketing stunt for the video game Resident Evil 6, in which a butcher shop selling fake "human meat" was set up at London's Smithfield Market:

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