Another photo is currently being distributed that warns of toxic food samples in mailboxes.
We have known about this photo for years, as has the warning, which has been shared since the beginning of 2016, but the toxic food samples described in it have never been detected or found. This warning was distributed several times in the past on WhatsApp in the form of a chain letter, but also appeared again and again in waves on Facebook as a status message.
One of these waves is currently occurring again, the warning is distributed in the form of a screenshot without status comment. In this respect, the age and origin of the picture are not clear. The content shown is:
"!!!!DANGER !!!! Fressnapf has given a warning!! Food samples are being distributed in mailboxes that supposedly come from Fressnapf.. That’s poison!!”
Is that correct?
NO! No poisonous food samples were ever detected. It is a chain letter, or now even an urban legend.
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In the end, however, the creation of this warning is already crazy, because the problem is a little home-made, as in February 2016 information was published by the Facebook page Fressnapf Solingen Werderstrasse that was based solely on speculation.
There could hardly be a more uncertain and vague reason for a warning. The original - and by the way never proven - content is:
As you read, you notice how vague the writing is here. The samples were “supposedly” sent and people are talking about the “Northern German area”. Likewise, there is simply speculation and the specter of a poison warning is raised without any justification. Again, and this can now be noted retrospectively, these types of food samples were never actually found.
Other pages and users on Facebook have now interpreted this warning in their own way and suddenly created confirmations and indicative statements from the vague assumptions and subjunctive statements:
We asked Fressnapf Solingen Werderstrasse DIRECTLY and received the following answer on February 29, 2016:
February 29, 2016: Reply Fressnapf
According to the answer, this publication was a reference to an internal letter. From this, the Solingen branch was able to see that there were packages that had been sent and that a photo of these packages was available internally.
Among other things, this letter states: “There is currently no information as to whether the food contained therein has been manipulated in any way.”
March 2, 2016: Fressnapf Germany
Meanwhile, the warning about poisoned food samples in early March 2016 went viral. As a reminder: no poison was found. Fressnapf DEUTSCHLAND found itself under pressure and responded to countless user inquiries on the chain's Facebook page:
So they were still groping in the dark, but at the same time they were asking potential recipients of feed shipments to hand them in at a branch for examination purposes. Incidentally, no poisoned samples were found at this time.
March 2, 2016: Fressnapf Austria
As befits a good urban legend, it must of course cross borders. So it was only a matter of time before people in Austria became concerned about poisoned feed samples. The status post from “ Fressnapf Solingen Werdersstraße Fressnapf AUSTRIA in the form of a screenshot as a user request :
Particularly piquant at this point is a comment in which there is supposedly 22 such food samples in Vienna. “I heard that…”. Incidentally, there has never been any corresponding proof of this; the question can be asked whether the original warning was not transferred to Vienna in the form of a momentum of its own and made concrete with the number 22.
March 2, 2016: Fressnapf Switzerland
The report was also circulating in Switzerland. The social media team for the Fressnapf Switzerland Facebook page took up the topic and also addressed unsettled customers. The content of the status report is nothing new; we are still asking you to urgently submit such a feed sample for examination purposes.
What now?
To date, more than two years after the first warning, there has never been sufficient evidence that a poisoned feed package has been delivered. Are we, as so often with urban legends, dealing with a phenomenon that arose from the dynamics of itself?
Of course, the moment the poison component came into play, the warning took on a certain drama and also achieved greater virality. This virality can no longer be captured and it has survived to this day. Survives in the form of screenshots, which continue to be distributed from private profiles.
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