{"id":1214605,"date":"2022-01-13T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214605"},"modified":"2022-01-13T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:49:44","slug":"fact-check-no-one-million-pounds-of-rat-meat-is-not-being-sold-as-boneless-chicken-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-one-million-pounds-of-rat-meat-is-not-being-sold-as-boneless-chicken-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, One Million Pounds Of Rat Meat Is Not Being Sold As Boneless Chicken Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-one-million-pounds-of-rat-meat-is-not-being-sold-as-boneless-chicken-wings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214605&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYkhIKAsrim\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=25a75027-ad2e-4343-9f0f-fc6b032f437e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram post<\/a> claims one million pounds of rat meat is being sold as chicken wings in the U.S.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYkhIKAsrim\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence rat meat is being sold as chicken wings. The rumor appears to stem from a satirical website.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Instagram post shows what appears to be a pile of dead, skinned rats along with a breaking news chyron that reads, \u201cOne Million Pounds Of Rat Meat Being Sold in America.\u201d Text included in the image clarifies the alleged rat meat is being sold as \u201cboneless chicken wings.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/02\/27\/fact-check-scientists-create-tyrannosaurus-rex-embryo-chicken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did North Carolina Scientists Create A T. Rex Embryo Using Chicken DNA?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no evidence of this. Check Your Fact searched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsis.usda.gov\/news-events\/news-press-releases?keywords=rat+meat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/fda-newsroom\/press-announcements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releases<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100064421034750\/search\/?q=rat%20meat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/200723243307374\/search\/?q=rat%20meat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=rat%20meat%20(from%3AUS_FDA%20OR%20from%3AFDArecalls%20OR%20from%3AUSDAFoodSafety)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posts<\/a> from the Department of Agriculture, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but found no mention of rat meat being sold as \u201cchicken wings.\u201d There are likewise no active recalls, market withdrawals or safety alerts related to chicken wings on the FDA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The claim appears to be a resurfaced version of a rumor that was debunked in 2017 and 2018. An internet search reveals the Washington, D.C.-based CBS affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/verify\/verify-is-rat-meat-being-sold-in-the-us-disguised-as-boneless-chicken\/65-461828712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WUSA9<\/a> debunked a claim in 2017 that alleged more than a million pounds of rat meat was being sold as \u201cboneless chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue was debunked by the FDA and was reported on in 2017 and 2018,\u201d said an FSIS spokesperson in an email to Check Your Fact. The spokesperson directed Check Your Fact to the WUSA9 debunk from 2017 and a 2018 article from <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/no-massive-quantities-rat-meat-are-still-not-being-sold-chicken-wings-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFP Fact Check<\/a> debunking the same claim. In both articles, the FDA denied the viral claim.<\/p>\n<p>The rumor appears to have satirical origins. A March 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/erosbonazzi.altervista.org\/worldwide-chicken-craze-million-pounds-of-rat-meat-being-sold-as-chicken-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post<\/a> that included the same image shared in the Instagram post cited a website called tmzbreaking.com as its source. That website now redirects to <a href=\"https:\/\/viralcocaine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viralcocaine.com<\/a>, a self-proclaimed \u201csatirical news blog,\u201d but an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170918153835\/http:\/\/tmzbreaking.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived version<\/a> of the tmzbreaking.com homepage from September 2017 shows it labeled itself as \u201cthe most notorious fauxtire &amp; satire entertainment website in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Instagram post claims one million pounds of rat meat is being sold as chicken wings in the U.S. Verdict: False There is no evidence rat meat is being sold &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}