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Oh !! Oh !! How cruel can humans be???
Please finish your meal before open the files.... (See attached file: Taiwan.jpg) What u are going to witness here is a fact, don't get scared !" It's Taiwan's hottest food..." In Taiwan, dead babies or fetuses could be bought at $50 to $70 from hospitals to meet the high demand for grilled and barbecued babies ... What a sad state of affairs!! Please forward this msg to as many people as u can so it can be seen by the world and someone takes action on the same |
Origins: One of the downsides of a burgeoning Internet is it fosters the delirious spread of misinformation as revealed fact in the blink of an eye. That was the case when a widely-
circulated photo which showed a large Asian man eating what
appeared to be a cooked baby was taken by many at face value. The picture was later teamed with the
breathless news that roast fetus was now the hottest dining craze in Taiwan, with outraged The truth proved far less horrifying than the rumor. The photo shown above was taken seriously by a number of important agencies who viewed it, and both Scotland Yard and the FBI investigated this matter, trying to determine when and where the picture was taken and the identities of those appearing in it. Its origin was quickly uncovered: The man in the photo is Chinese artist Zhu Yu, who performed a conceptual piece called "Eating People" at a Shanghai arts festival in 2000. The controversial photo has since been part of a number of art exhibits; as for the "baby," it was most likely constructed by placing a doll's head on a duck's carcass.
Barbara "cry wolf" Mikkelson
Last updated: 3 February 2007
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Greene, Thomas. "Dead-Baby Muncher Pics Spawn Police Inquiry." The Register. 22 February 2001. Greene, Thomas. "Online Baby Muncher Is an Artist." The Register. 23 February 2001. Laurance, Jeremy. "British Police Discover More Child Abuse Horror on Internet." The Independent. 21 February 2001. Lowy, Joan. "Reports of Fetus Sales Alarm Congressman." Denver Rocky Mountain News. 4 May 1995 (p. A49). Sharma, Yojana. "Chinese Trade in Human Foetuses for Consumption Is Uncovered." The Daily Telegraph. 13 April 1995 (International, p. 14).