It’s hard to shock me anymore, but this did it. Of course, I am a Westerner.
Beauty products made from the skin of executed Chinese prisoners – Agents for the [Chinese cosmetics] firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company’s products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is “traditional” and nothing to “make such a big fuss about”.
He suggested that the use of skin and other tissues harvested from executed prisoners was not uncommon. “In China it is considered very normal and I was very shocked that western countries can make such a big fuss about this,” he said. Speaking from his office in northern China, he added: “The government has put some pressure on all the medical facilities to keep this type of work in low profile.”
Skin from prisoners used to be even less expensive, he said. “Nowadays there is a certain fee that has to be paid to the court.”
On the other hand, there has long been talk in this country about using the organs of executed prisoners for transplants, so I guess the shock comes from the usage, the idea of rubbing ground up people on your face. Or that since the body parts are used for commerce, innocents might be executed just to get their valuable parts. Lots of ways to look at all this.
Did I hear the words, soylent green?
And the Swedes are turning dead people into tree mulch:
http://compactURL.com/rfrs
Soylent Green is a pretty good name for a fertilizer.
Soylent Green is supposed to be good, but I’ve never tasted it. Some say it’s kinder to eat the undead, but I have a gut feeling that it’s better to let it live first. Check it out:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,373796,00.html
Did you hear the words ‘nazi concentration camps’? Exactly the same sort of things those guys did to the jews and gipsies…
So *what* exactly differentiates the nazis, the chinese, and even the americans in that respect?
Almost every day now I wonder – where the hell have ethics and morals gone? They’re nowere to be seen these days, at least in our western society. And that’s exactly what will bring us down sometime soon. Nobody cares, if there’s some money to be made.
Tell me, when was the last time you trusted a politician? A lawyer? A business-person?
Those ‘honest’ people are the ones who are actively doing this sort of shit… All over the world. Heck, my PC was built in China, shouldn’t we be embargoing them – because of this, Tiananmen square, and a bunch of other things?
No – to feed the greed of a bunch of capitalists – which is what they are – we’re also feeding a communist dictatorial regime that couldn’t care less about their people… And everyone is making a few bucks out of this… Where is the ethics when confronted with a few dollars?
BTW, I am totally against the death penalty – anywhere in the world. I think the best punishment for sick criminal bastards is to let them grow old, *very* old, in jail. Let them suffer the pains of old age, not die young and healthy. Old age – now that’s a great punishment.
Not to mention the possibility of human error in sentencing potentially innocent people to death…
Next time you buy at WalMart, consider your money goes to prop up the world’s most repressive dictatorship. Despite all you may hear, the PRC does eat its young, and does have imperial ambitions. All China wants is to pay for its China-uber-alles agenda with your dollars. Your WalMart purchase finances practices like this.
WalMart is not alone. Boeing, IBM, Microsoft and other US corporations cannot wait to sell their souls, either, to enter the Chinese market. Boeing, in particular, now refers to Tibet as a remote province of China.US technology, given to an imperial dictatorship in China, will come back in our faces, inevitably. Thank you, Boeing, IBM and Microsoft.The ordinary Chinese doesn’t care about the long-term politics and strategy, and a courageous few among them even promote democratic values within China– that is, when their emails and websites are not shut down by PRC police. The world also remembers the solitary Chinese student facing down a line of PRC tanks at Tiananmen Square, not so many years ago. But the same people at Tiananmen are still in charge in Beijing. Big Brother is here, with a Chinese face.
Wasn’t it a few weeks ago you were praising China for being on the forefront of cloning research? This isn’t any different.
You can’t transplant organs after death by lethal injection. The massive amount of KCl used to stop the heart damages cellular integrity. You could harvest bone and tendon, since these are processed after harvesting. Many of these prisoners had a hard life and may have numerous chronic infections also. You would have to change the law so organs could be harvested prior to somatic death. There’s not enough executions carried out in the US to be worth these changes. The Chinese executes a lot of prisoners by a single bullet to the head, which of course is billed to the prisoners family.
I am not an apologist for the Chinese but I will give you an instance how easterners gets shocked by Western practices – nonvegetarian cows.
“United States, 14% of all cows by volume are ground up, turned into feed, and fed back to other animals.” – Oprah show
MV
I’m not a cow.
GregAllen
There is a difference between aborting a fetus and executing a political dissident. A fetus is not a human until birth, by Medical definition and Supreme Court case law.
I am also against Captitol punishment. I agree letting them live a long life behind bars is a better punishment.
Pat,
I am just saying things are relative. The French eat horses while others abhor meat from beasts of burden.
>A fetus is not a human until birth, by Medical definition
So all those Weekly World News stories about alien babies are true?
lol, what really love to know is if Donald Trump is using real gold to colour his hair?