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[user=13]Octahedron[/user] wrote: .....
Quote:[user=14]Sariel[/user] wrote: Quote:[size="1"]eRumor[/size] [color="#000080"][size="4"]Aborted Babies are Being Sold For Food in Taiwan and China[/size][/color][size="4"][color="#000080"]-[/color][color="#ff0000"]Fiction![/color][/size]
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[color="#000080"][size="1"][size="2"]after mouseclicking I read : [/size]"Last updated 12/31/01" [/size][/color]
[size="2"]that story was last updated 31/12/01; almost 8 years difference with the date of the expansions story.
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Look here http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/...uth-china/
The picture posted there is the same as the one from Expansions site.
But the date is April 19, 2006.
So, those pictures are in circulation for years. The origins of these all stories and pictures can be traced to Zhu Yu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Yu_(artist)
He made those pictures for his sickly shows in the years 2000 and 2002.
Later those pictured were misused to create an email hoax and by unscrupulous tabloids.
So obviously, Swerdlow did fell for a hoax. But, well, that can happen to anyone, but what is funny, is his self-assurance
"Proof positive below and confirmed from our private sources that this is TRUE"
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http://ethicalmartini.wordpress.com/2009...up-update/
According to a comment, the images that accompany the hoax were part of a series by Chinese artist Zhu Yu that were meant to highlight issues around religion and cannibalism. According to the Wikipedia entry on Zhu the hoax emails began circulating in 2001. The entry also suggests that the images are of a dollââ¬â¢s head attached to the ââ¬Åbodyââ¬Â of a duck. Zhu always claimed it was a real fetus stolen from a Chinese medical school.
In case youââ¬â¢re still not convinced About.com has also posted on this hoax and says that it is a form of ââ¬Åblood libelââ¬Â in which various ethnic groups ââ¬â in this case Cantonese ââ¬â are slandered with a cannibalism tag. Who knows why some jerks get off on this sh*t, but in an age of racist ignorance (ie: the world today), such viral nastiness does find a certain fu*ked-up audience. This sample of comment from CharonBoat certainly seems to confirm such an analysis.
Now, well, I don't claim that there is no cannibalisms in the world because there is unfortunately. But those pictures from China are fake and that is an email hoax.
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