{"id":6225,"date":"2019-08-08T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:44:08","slug":"fact-check-false-claim-on-dog-meat-recovered-from-ashoka-hotel-in-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/fact-check-false-claim-on-dog-meat-recovered-from-ashoka-hotel-in-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: false claim on dog meat &#8220;recovered&#8221; from Ashoka hotel in Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A claim viral on social media suggests that dog meat has been recovered from the kitchen of one Ashoka hotel in Howrah, West Bengal. This claim is accompanied by a set of photographs, one of which shows hung carcasses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42819\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat1.jpg?resize=400%2C518\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat1.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat1.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above post of May 2018 is by the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesiligurimirror\/posts\/982613875247410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Siliguri Mirror<\/em><\/a>. Although the page has a modest following of less than 12,000, the above post was shared over 27,000 times. The same was posted on the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudToBeAnIndian.JaiHind\/posts\/raid-in-ashoka-hotel-howrah-dogs-meat-found-in-kitchen\/2095362710480057\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN<\/em><\/a>. The post was shared over 5700 times. Several Facebook users too have posted this information on their timelines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42820\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat2.jpg?resize=452%2C550\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat2.jpg?w=452&amp;ssl=1 452w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat2.jpg?resize=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1 247w\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News found that this identical claim with the accompanying pictures had circulated on Twitter as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Raid in Ashoka Hotel, Howrah, Kolkata. Dog&#39;s Meat found in Kitchen.\ud83d\ude2f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MamataOfficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MamataOfficial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/egJPbKM0MB\">pic.twitter.com\/egJPbKM0MB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sandeep Singh \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@sandeepfromvns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandeepfromvns\/status\/994562316715765760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>FACT CHECK<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Most of these posts date back to May 2018. Using specific keywords, Alt News came across<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/kmc-team-inspects-kolkata-eateries-destroys-100kg-stale-meat\/articleshow\/64019450.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> which stated that stale meat had been recovered from several eateries in Kolkata following raids by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. One of the restaurants from which stale meat was seized was Ashoka hotel in Howrah. According to officials, the meat and fish which were seized were fungal-infected. However, <strong>it may be noted that there is no reference to dog meat<\/strong>. Posted below is a video report of the same by <em>NDTV<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kolkata Rotten Meat Racket: West Bengal Police Form Team, 10 Arrested\" width=\"1240\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4x3S1BvjHsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>OLD, UNRELATED PHOTOGRAPHS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>PHOTO 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Alt News reverse-searched the photograph which has been circulated along with this claim, showing hung dog carcasses, and found it posted on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/chinese-and-vietnamese-government-stop-the-carnage-of-dogs-and-cats-in-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>www.change.org<\/em><\/a>, in 2012, with reference to Vietnam. The photograph thus cannot be representative of the raids on eateries which took place in Kolkata in May 2018, where no dog meat was reportedly found.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42923\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat5.jpg?resize=893%2C585\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat5.jpg?w=893&amp;ssl=1 893w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat5.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat5.jpg?resize=768%2C503&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat5.jpg?resize=130%2C86&amp;ssl=1 130w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat5.jpg?resize=187%2C124&amp;ssl=1 187w\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>PHOTO 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Alt News reverse searched the second photograph which shows a pack of dogs, and found it posted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogster.com\/the-scoop\/dog-meat-vietnam-thailand-black-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> on dog meat in Southeast Asia. The report is of September 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42928\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat6.jpg?resize=597%2C560\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat6.jpg?w=597&amp;ssl=1 597w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat6.jpg?resize=300%2C281&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hence, the above image too cannot be representative of the raids on restaurants in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>PHOTO 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Reverse-searching the third photograph showing a skinned dog, we found the same on an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.farsnews.com\/news\/13940319001471\/%DB%B2%DB%B0%DB%B0%DB%B0-%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88-%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%B3%DA%AF-%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%84-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3-%D8%B4%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1#relatedNewsPane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iranian news website<\/a>. The report referred to dog meat reportedly being seized from Mashhad in Iran. The image was featured in this report in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42932\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat7.jpg?resize=612%2C559\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat7.jpg?w=612&amp;ssl=1 612w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat7.jpg?resize=300%2C274&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dogmeat7.jpg?resize=459%2C420&amp;ssl=1 459w\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"559\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the claim that dog meat was recovered from a hotel in Howrah, Kolkata is baseless. Moreover, photographs of dogs, used to convey the same, are old, unrelated and not from India.<\/p>\n<p>[This report was first published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alt News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs of dogs used are old, unrelated and not from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":6227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}