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In February 2016, social media users started to share the graphic image and caption below (many in the popular type amen manner of coercing online engagement:) The image was captioned: Versions of the fetuses found in a Chinese restaurant freezer story had already been circulating for several months, and the claim seemed to be a spinoff of an early piece of internet lore about soup in China made from fetuses or babies (which originated from a piece of performance art). Although the photograph's explanation was mostly inspired by the older story, its circumstances appeared to be linked to a separate instance of miscaptioning. In February 2016, a photograph circulated alongside claims that it showed fetuses discovered in a dumpster outside an abortion clinic in Michigan. The image actually dated back several years to a discovery of fetuses in a river in Nepal. The earliest dated instance of the image was on a forum called Documenting Reality, which specializes in gore and death photos: No further information was offered about the image or its circumstances, but neither did that earliest appearance include any mention of Chinese food or meat markets. The image was very likely one of several taken following the discovery of 2,000 fetuses in a temple in Thailand in 2010, which, according to news reports, were hidden at the temple by abortion clinics that were operating illegally in the country: However, upon its first appearance, no one claimed the image showed the sale of fetuses or babies for food preparation. That claim was one of several Western rumors that supported the idea that attitudes about life and death were far more cavalier in China or other Asian countries, a trope that was extremely common (and appeared to be a tacit moral judgment levied by Westerners).
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