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2007-05-16 China-Japan-Koreas

Hong Kong Reports Mainland Chinese Eating Infants

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-05-16 07:52|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Jesus Christ! Which hell of propaganda did this abomination crawl out of?

Yes, I've heard of political cannibalism in China - at the irrational peak of the Cultural Revolution. This, on the other hand, reads like a red-panic fever-dream. Next Magazine, btw, is apparently Hong Kong's answer to the National Enquirer, sort of a mad chimera of Us Weekly, the Weekly World News, Maxim, and Reason.

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#2 Yeah, I agree. Sounds like red-faced hysteria to me too. Although I wouldn't put it past those commie bastards.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-16 08:54|| 2007-05-16 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Truth can be stranger than fiction. Eating fetuses is probably just urban legend storytelling, but frankly, I wouldn't be all that surprised if some people are doing it. I don't think this is at all out of the question for some Chinese. Abortion is very much an accepted part of life for the Chinese, so it makes sense to me that some would seek a way to make some money off it. And if true, male fetuses would be considered a rarity since it's usually the females that are aborted.

While this example of human immorality and stupidity is the worst if it's true, but there are so many things like this, for instance killing endangered Rhinos and leaving their flesh to rot, in order to make a supposed aphrodisiac from the horn, etc.

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Prisoners, Aborted Fetuses Sold for Medical Uses in China

Posted by ex-lib 2007-05-16 12:21|| 2007-05-16 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's a translation from shanghailist blog:

So what did actually say? Here is the summary:
In January this year at a dinner of Taiwan business people in Shanghai, the women were gossiping about how to improve one's looks. A Liaoning helper Sister Lau interjected: "In our hometown, the best cosmetological material is placenta. It is better than taking any injection or medicine." Sister Liu recalled the hardship of the Cultural Revolution era: "At the time, we lacked everything. Who can eat meat? When you want to eat meat, you contact the rural midwife to ask for placenta to make soup or dumplings ... when I got married, I was frail and the family elders found a dead baby to make dumplings and soup for me ... Recently, I have stomach pains but they couldn't diagnose the cause at the hospital. So my hometown folks are gathering 'stuff' for me when I return home during the Lunar New year."

Our special correspondent begged Sister Lau to go to witness the occasion. Sister Lau said, "Nowadays everybody has enough money to pay. But the supply is controlled by the hospital and you have to get in line. Fortunately, I have relatives working there and she will put some good stuff aside for me." The good stuff refers to older fetuses which have more flesh; furthermore, males are better stuff than females.

One month later, Sister Lau was told that the merchandise had arrived and frozen in the icebox. So the special correspondent went to Liaoning with Sister Lau and they proceeded to the place of the cook, who is a rural woman experienced in the process. When they got there, the cook took out a small paper box which contained some frozen meat. When the wrapping was removed, a 30cm long baby fetus with eyes closed appeared. The cook then defrosted the fetus under running water while murmuring: "The body is big. It seemed to five or six months old ..." Then she exclaimed: "Oh, it's a boy. It's a boy. That is rare." Sister Lau explained: "We got this because of the hospital contact. Otherwise, you cannot buy this with any amount of money. The mother of this baby is a university student who was forced to abort by the school."

Then the cook used the long knife to carve off slices of flesh from the thighs of the male fetus. "Fetuses have tender flesh ... but there is not much flesh except for the thighs." Then the cook proceeded with the usual method of making dumplings by chopping up the meat and mixing it with chives and ginger. Meanwhile, a soup was being made with the placenta. When the food was presented on the table, Sister Lau quickly grabbed a dumpling, took a bite and then proclaimed: "So tasty!" From outward appearance, the fetus dumpling did not look very different from regular dumplings except the meat was more reddish. She offered the dumplings to the others, but everybody else was so scared that their faces turned white with fear. But the cook pleaded with Sister Lau: "My daughter-in-law has not been feeling well. Can you let her have the rest of the fetus?" Sister Lau did not agree. Instead, she took the remains of the fetus and burned it in the countryside while she offered prayers.

[Blogger's comment: Is this item accurate? I have serious doubts, because I would have heard about this type of thing if the practice was as prevalent as asserted. Nevertheless this item is translated here because it illustrates the different attitudes towards censorship in Hong Kong versus Taiwan. In Taiwan, there has apparently not even been a blink. In Hong Kong, it was classified as Category 3 obscene material. There is no absolute right or wrong about this, because different communities have different standards.]

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Posted by ex-lib 2007-05-16 12:23|| 2007-05-16 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry the Epoch Times article didn't come through on the link at comment #3. Here it is:

Prisoners, Aborted Fetuses Sold for Medical Uses in China

First-hand Knowledge Reported by a Reader

A letter from a Reader
Mar 17, 2006

I come from a very famous medical research organization in China. About ten years ago, I became a graduate student. Because of my reserch, I saw with my own eyes that my colleagues participated in these kinds of matters, which are indeed cruel and horrible. For the sake of my friend's safety, I will not disclose the name of the organization.

Some of the research projects in China use humans or human fetuses as specimens. Some researchers consider this to be advanced research at the international level, as it is hard to perform such research in other countries because of the lack of specimens. In China, where do the specimens come from?

Aborted Fetuses

Because of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) birth control policy, every year, hospitals perform induced labor to abort seven to eight month old babies. Some babies are even nearly full term and are alive.

Ten years ago in Beijing, an induced labor fetus sold for only 80 yuan (less than USD $10) to a research institute. One could simply ride a bicycle with an ice pot and take a fetus away. The mother who had just suffered great pain did not know of the transaction or the whereabouts of the child, nor was the family informed. The money obtained became doctors' and nurses' extra income.

More dreadfully, some fetuses that were near full term were still alive after the induced abortion. With my own ears, I heard a colleague say that sometimes one can hear the baby crying in the ice pot. Later, my colleague became pregnant and was unable to continue this kind of research that was required for her thesis. She asked technicians in the department for help.

A doctoral dissertation requires nearly one hundred experimentsjust imagine! Sometimes several different projects shared one fetus with each project getting a different organ. In that kind of environment, everyone became numb. At that time, my research involved large mice. What if it had involved humans? I dare not imagine.

We were young and just out of the school. We entered the research institute not yet knowing what it was like to be a mother. Yet we all said in private that we would never get pregnant with a second child; we would never abort a fetus.

Organs from Prisoners Condemned to Death

There were communications between different organizations regarding prisoners condemned to death. Once a prisoner was to be executed, organizations would be notified. I personally heard a colleague talk about going to fetch a body. His experiment required a normal control group.

In other countries, these experiments require a participant's consent, but in China, executed prisoners' organs are taken without consent. If one searches the literature published in China, statements on the source of specimens are usually very vague, but some actually state that the source was a prisoner condemned to death.

When I saw The Epoch Times reports on the CCP's cruelty towards Falun Gong practitioners and the bloody behind-the-scenes selling of Falun Gong practitioners' organs at Sujiatun, I knew the CCP was capable of doing all of that. The CCP is simply inhumane.

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-3-17/39361.html

Posted by ex-lib 2007-05-16 12:26|| 2007-05-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Still interested in ag products from China? A little Soylent Green?

Some argue that China will get ahead of us in stem cell research while George Bush hesitates. But I think Bush is right to worry about this kind of a slippery slope. Maybe the story isn't true but we know the communist government is an abomination so I don't doubt it all that much. When you have no morals, anything goes.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-16 15:36|| 2007-05-16 15:36|| Front Page Top

#7 If true, this is merely one more sordid example of North Korea's vile policy of proliferation. In this case, it's their culinary practices.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-16 17:25|| 2007-05-16 17:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah ha! 5089 is a provacatur! I knew it! I knew it!

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-16 19:11|| 2007-05-16 19:11|| Front Page Top

#9 There were mostly unconfirmed post9-11 reports from varied sources of STARVATION-INDUCED CANNABILISM in certain Chinese rural provinces, for reasons includ the SELLING OF THE [RECENT/NEWLY]DEAD + ABORTED FETUSES [body parts] + YOUNG CHILDREN [slavery-bondage, body parts], FOR FOOD OR $$$ TO BUY FOOD. Bad crop yields, redux in local Party control-expenditures, andor diaspora of many able-bodied, employment-seeking youths [males]to cities or elsewhere leaving the very young, women, and elderly to fend for themselves.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-16 20:43|| 2007-05-16 20:43|| Front Page Top

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#11 Fetus. It's what for dinner!

God, I hope not.

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