Daily Mail Used a Steak House's Photo to Illustrate a (Probably Fake) Story on Cannibalism

That's chateaubriand, not long pork

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Sure, it can be hard to find a good photo to illustrate an article about cannibalism, but that's really no excuse for trying to pass off a restaurant's steak as man-meat.

The owner of London's Hawksmoor steak house understandably took issue with British tabloid The Daily Mail using a photo of his (quite lovely) chateaubriand to illustrate a story about a supposed restaurant serving human meat in Nigeria.

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