Chinese smuggling powdered baby flesh capsules?

[Kitsunegari]

Yuck if true, why hasn't ROK put a stop to this already?:

The South Korean government revealed Monday that it recently seized thousands of capsules filled with the powdered flesh of dead babies. Reportedly, some people believe the powder has medicinal purposes and was created in northeastern China.

South Korea has reportedly been reluctant to criticize China directly over the incident, out of fears of creating diplomatic friction with the country. But the process by which the powder is allegedly created is one of the most disturbing stories imaginable.

According to the Korea Customs Service, the bodies of dead babies are chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder. The customs officials have refused to say exactly where the babies come from or who is responsible for making the capsules.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...190306280.html

[Big War Bird]

Wow.

[Sphere]

I bet they taste good.

[Menelik_I]

Oh my ... this can't be true right ?

[Arbitrary Crusader]

Is this what they do to newborn girls?

[Treize]

And then they tell me all cultures are equal.

Had to mention it, sorry.

[Vítor Gaspar]

Oh look, yet another fabricated scary story about China.

[fkizz]

Already had my mindscrew dose when several american companies used dead fetus cells on food experiments.

Still not sure if true or not.

[mrmouth]

Already had my mindscrew dose when several american companies used dead fetus cells on food experiments.

Still not sure if true or not.

A little research would show it was born in the Christian media. More truth bending on the far right.

The FDA has recently approved the use of certain stem cells from aborted fetuses in experiments to treat diseases in the living. Then a Republican Senator craftily made statements about the food industry using them in flavor research. And then Oklahoma passed a law to ban that.

So there you go.


And yes, certain Asian countries do some have some seriously disgusting habits that you would assume common sense would have done away with long ago. Then again, who are we to talk given the above story that I outlined...

[prdude1234]

This is actually true. In China you can buy baby fetus frozen in a container in any supermarket and then go home and cook it. I know someone who was at China in the 2008 Olympics told me he saw those things.

[John F. Kennedy]

Leave it to China...

[Jom]

Not really political - moved to the Thema Devia.

[Gen. Chris]

Oh look, yet another fabricated scary story about China.

How do you know?

[nameless]

How do you know?

This story was posted several months ago and I think it was deemed a hoax or something.

The way I'm reading it seems YAHOO just picked up an old story.

[Mr. Scott]

This story was posted several months ago and I think it was deemed a hoax or something.

The way I'm reading it seems YAHOO just picked up an old story.

And the Wall Street Journal (where I saw it)?

and many other news sites?

Using this to generalize a whole culture is quite stupid though
But coming from a family with many 1st generation Chinese and Koreans in it... they can be superstitious to the point where it may lead to things like this.

[Condottiere 40K]

Depends on what medicinal properties the pills supposedly had; there are some things that some people tend to ignore morality to obtain: youth, wealth, health, political power, virility, immortality, attracting sexual partners.

[jankren]

The Chinese have been exporting all sorts of weird medicine all over Asia for centuries.

Here in Indonesia, Chinese herbal 'medicines' are in high demand. Personally though Im not touching any of those Chinese crap unless it is backed up by scientific medical studies.

[boofhead]

This same scandal was around about a year ago, and turned out to be bollocks.

[Markas]

This same scandal was around about a year ago, and turned out to be bollocks.

I'd stick with the baby flesh in that case.

[boofhead]