The horrifying video shows a large slab of beef twitching as it hangs in a butchers in the Philippines. 

An alarmed shopper spotted the meat's vigorous tremors as they strolled through the Tagaytay Market in the Philippines.  

Despite being clearly dead and skinned, the cow's corpse gives the impression it could still be alive.  

The video showing the pulsating meat was uploaded to YouTube by Jaime Tolentino, and has had more than 300,000 views.

Spasms in the dead flesh are due to nerve endings which continue to fire after death, causing the muscles to move.

Although it only continues for three minutes in the YouTube footage, the effect can last for up to an hour or so after the animal was actually killed.

A woman in China recorded similar footage earlier this year, which shows a lump of steak jumping on her kitchen counter.

The woman, known only as Ms Cheng, had bought the steak from a butchers in Shandong province an hour before the footage was taken.

She was about the cut into the steak when she noticed the spasms.

Ms Cheng said: ‘It looked like it was still alive, or that there are worms or something inside. However, when I cut it open I didn’t find any worms, just twitching.’

Lv Suwen, an expert at the local animal health department said at the time: ‘You can rest assured, this piece of meat is very fresh and is from a freshly slaughtered animal.

‘The central nervous system is dead but the nerve-endings in the muscles are still firing resulting in the jumping, because the nerves are not yet dead. This will stop after a short time.’ 

(dailymail.co.uk)