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| Adult Breast Feeding Report Incenses China Web Users |
| 2013-07-06 |
| [An Nahar] Human breast milk has become a new luxury for China's rich, with some firms offering wet nurse services, a report said, provoking outrage and disgust among web users Thursday. Ah, decadence! Xinxinyu, a domestic staff agency in the booming city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, provided wet nurses for newborns, the sick and other adults who pay high prices for the milk's fine nutrition, the Southern Metropolis Daily said. "Adult (clients) can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed," the report quoted company owner Lin Jun as saying. Wet nurses serving adults are paid around 16,000 yuan ($2,600) a month -- more than four times the Chinese average -- and those who were "healthy and good looking" could earn even more, the report said. Traditional beliefs in some parts of China hold that human breast milk has the best and most easily digestible nutrition for people who are ill. But the report sparked heated debate in the media and on Chinese social media, with most users condemning the service as unethical. "This adds to China's problem of treating women as consumer goods and the moral degradation of China's rich," said Cao Baoyin, a writer and regular commentator in various Chinese media, on his blog. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Ewwwwwwwwwwww |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-07-06 18:04 |
| #6 I thought adult Chinese can't digest milk? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-07-06 14:46 |
| #5 You mean China actually beat Japan to something kind of weird? What is the world coming too? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-07-06 10:27 |
| #4 Can't quite see what's so bad about this apart from the icky factor. At least you know the milks not got the usual crap in it and its sterile. Which is probably a double bonus in china. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-07-06 09:41 |
| #3 Au contraire, pseudo-moralistic standards and totalitarian or authoritarian regimes are common place. Upper 'management' just exempts themselves from such expectations. It's in the more egalitarian cultures that the upper management is 'expected' to behave as they demand of others. That's what makes those more entertaining. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-07-06 08:43 |
| #2 PRC and ethics, seems like the odd couple. |
| Posted by: Thaing Dingles 2013-07-06 01:06 |
| #1 Just wait for a custom smoothie at 'The Breast Bar'. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-07-06 01:00 |