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2024-09-27 18:27:54 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4AA8F5B51CD2D3F979AADFACD356B265C9EB562976217AAFF05A6E0B520F2829
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This video is the December 13, 2013, FBI raid on Arthur Rathburn’s warehouse in Detroit, Michigan. Rathburn supplied unwitting medical educators, NOT McDonald's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA75YDVXJqs https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2018/01/05/cadaver-dealer-grosse-pointe-rathburn/1006950001/ https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2018/01/fbi_found_piles_of_dead_flies.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bodies-trial/fbi-agent-describes-grisly-warehouse-in-start-of-body-brokers-trial-idUSKBN1EU1V8/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-rathburn/ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/businessman-who-sold-diseased-human-body-parts-gets-nine-years-in-prison-idUSKCN1IN2P9/#:~:text=Rathburn%20supplied%20unwitting%20medical%20educators%20with%20body%20parts The debunked McDonald's serves "human meat" story is from the SATIRICAL blog Huzlers.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20140327054929/https://huzlers.com/mcdonalds-exposed-for-using-human-meat/#:~:text=Huzlers.com%20is%20a%20combination%20of%20real%20shocking%20news%20and%20satire%20news%20to%20keep%20its%20visitors%20in%20a%20state%20of%20disbelief https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-9233643423 https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/mcdonalds-human-meat-claims-stem-from-satire-article-idUSL2N2NT1SV/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/19/facebook-posts/nope-there-is-no-human-flesh-in-processed-ground-m/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swap-meat/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/12/30/fact-check-false-claim-mcdonalds-and-human-meat/9044539002/
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