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And word has been out about China doing this since the late 80s.
I had forgotten about it. Thanks for the remind. Stuff like this needs to be brought front and center.
Additionally, there were stories circulating not so long ago that celebrities were going to South Korea to get facials made from baby foreskins taken from circumcisions. That’s ick enough, but was that the only part of babies in the secret formula?
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>>And word has been out about China doing this since the late 80s.
— Well, that’s a measure of how well-tamped-down this info has been. Not widely known, AFAIK. I definitely heard about rhino horns and tiger penises, but not humans.
It’s mentioned in Sun Tzu’s time too...
To paraphrase, in an interaction with an enemy emissary a representative of a city under siege commented that things were not well, and they “exchange their children and crack their bones for the marrow”.