This week saw an incredible report supposedly from Nigeria where a local restaurant was said to be a human slaughterhouse taken right out of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," but the human meat restaurant hoax eventually surfaced when Nigerian police denied the rumors - but now, one news outlet is regretting their report the most.
Earlier this week, Food World News reported on the human meat restaurant hoax, ending the article with the police report that denied the horrible rumors from the official branch; however, one of the biggest news outlets in the United Kingdom, The Daily Mail, got into trouble over its use of images for the article.
The human meat restaurant hoax is not the first time that The Daily Mail is in the receiving end of controversy following a report, as they famously had issues with George Clooney last year after falsely reporting that Amal Alamuddin's parents were against their marriage because of religious reasons.
Now, according to The Independent, their article on the human meat restaurant hoax prompted the owner of a British steak restaurant chain, Hawksmoor, to call out the famous news outlet upon realizing one of their steaks had been used as an image for the report regarding the supposed Nigerian restaurant shot down after bloody human heads were found in their kitchens.
Through Twitter, the chain's owner Will Becket confronted the news outlet asking whether it was legal for them to use their steaks' image (shown above) in an article of such defamatory nature.
The Huffington Post UK contacted Beckett to ask about the original photo posted on Daily Mail online, which has now been removed from the site and replaced for an image of pork chops, though it's unknown where that photo comes from.
"Someone sent me through the link asking if this was our steak and yes, it is. It's a sliced chateaubriand from Yorkshire Longhorn cattle that we serve at all our restaurants, which have won numerous 'best steak in the UK' awards," said Beckett. "For clarity's sake we don't serve human flesh, there are no severed heads in our kitchen."
It's unknown whether the chain will be pursuing legal action against The Daily Mail after the human meat restaurant hoax scandal.
