In May 2016, social media posts and articles reporting that China was making corned beef with dead bodies and selling the products to Africa began circulating on social media, along with a series of photographs purportedly showing the morbid operation:
Different versions of the above-displayed post have been around for many years, with a variety of gruesome images purportedly showing dead bodies being made into corned beef. These photographs derive 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:
