In March of 2000, a rumor started to spread through the internet that a popular global restaurant chain was not using real beef in their hamburgers. The email suggested that, instead of getting their meat from cows, this company was getting their meat from a genetically modified animal. The email claimed that “the few who saw it assure it is a very unpleasant sight: they have on limbs or horns, no bones (undeveloped cartilage instead), no eyes, no tail and no fur; its head is about the size of a tennis ball; they are fed through tubes connected directly into their stomach”. This email painted a disturbing picture which no doubt caused its readers to pause and contemplate the truth of such accusations. Readers would most likely ask themselves if such a thing could really exist, and if it did exist could it really be the creation of such a company.
The discovery of the creature was credited to some researchers from the University of Michigan, but no one there ever claimed authorship to such fantasy.
It has been pointed out that this urban legend closely resembles one that dogged a fried chicken chain a short time before. In this example it was...
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