China denies shipping marinated human flesh in cans to be sold as food in Africa

China has vehemently denied reports that it's canning human flesh and selling it as food to African nations.


A picture of dead humans flesh being processed as corned beef went viral a few weeks ago and a top Chinese official has dismissed reports in Zambia which queried the source 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.

But the statement, issued by the Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, Yang Youming, blames people spreading "malicious" rumours; he told Chinese news agency Xinhua : "Today a local tabloid newspaper is openly spreading a rumour, claiming that the Chinese use human meat to make corned beef and sell it to Africa.

This is one of the images that went viral. The image was posted and caption by a Facebook user, Barbara Akosua Aboagye

'Please send this to all your contacts , it's very important . 

Chinese people have started producing corned beef with their dead bodies and sending them to Africa . Please stay away from corned beef irrespective of brand , most especially in Africa and from Afro-Asian grocery shops'