McDonald's Still at it - and Now This - China Cans Human Meat!

09:42, 20 May 2016
Updated 17:54, 20 May 2016
By Kirstie McCrum

A top official has dismissed reports in Zambia which queried the provenance of some ‘meat products’ being shipped from China to the African continent.
In the media reports, an unnamed Zambian woman living in China reportedly issued warnings to Africans not to eat corned beef.

She claimed that dead human bodies were being collected and marinated before being canned and labelled as corned beef for human consumption .
 

Chinese officials have demanded an investigation into the reports it claims are baseless But the statement, issued by the Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, Yang Youming, blames people spreading “malicious” rumors.

China has robustly denied the accusations levelled online and in Zambian media  

“This is completely a malicious slandering and vilification which is absolutely unacceptable to us.”

“We hereby express our utmost anger and the strongest condemnation over such an act.”
 

The Facebook sharing of images of supposed human meat has been exposed as fake  

He said: “The government of Zambia regrets the incident in view of the warm relations that exist between Zambia and China.”

Some reports have been quoting workers in Chinese meat factories, who claim the measures began because there is limited burial space.

They said non-human meat was being sent to more powerful trade partners.
 

 
Shocking images, said to show human bodies being prepared for the process, have been ‘exposed as fakes’ from a 2012 marketing stunt for the video game Resident Evil 6. (You believe this?)  Consider:  Bodies hanging by the heels, blood drains down in to canals below, arms hanging straight down to the floor, bodies being rotated on electric meat hook rack, bodies skinned ready to be cut for packaging.
 

Mythbusting site Snopes reported that they were taken as a ‘butcher shop’ selling fake “human meat” which was set up at London’s Smithfield Market. (If you believe Snopes, you are sadly VERY deceived.)

The reports come just two months after China and Zambia signed a treaty cementing close ties between the countries.