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Cosmetics firm using remains of executed Chinese
World Tribune (UK) ^ | 3/23/06 | Staff

Posted on 03/24/2006 6:58:47 PM PST by indthkr

A Chinese cosmetics company has been using skin taken from the bodies of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, a London newspaper reported.

An agent for the company informed customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they had been shot.

The agent said some of the company‘s products have been exported to Britain, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts was “traditional" and nothing to “make such a big fuss about,“ the Guardian reported In addition to ethical concerns, there is the potential risk of infection from the harvested skin products.

The company was not identified by name for legal reasons and it is unclear whether collagen made from the skin of prisoners was in the research stage or in actual production.

“A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoners and aborted fetus," the agent was quoted as saying. The material, he said, was being bought from “biotech" companies based in Heilongjiang Province and was being developed elsewhere in China.

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.

In the past, human rights groups have charged that China was using organs harvested from executed prisoners for medical transplants both domestically and internationally. China executed about 3,400 prisoners last year, according to Amnesty International.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; biotech; china; cosmetics; humanbonefurniture; humanfatsoap; humanhairstuffing; humantissue; plyersntoothfillings; prisoners; skinlampshades; walmartsfriend
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To: null and void
"I don't think I want to know about Girl Scout Cookies..."


Thin Mince, mmmmmmmmmm...
61 posted on 03/24/2006 9:43:40 PM PST by decal (My name is "decal" and I approve this tagline)
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To: indthkr

Besides, there are NO Chinese cosmetics companies operating in Europe. It's a plain fact that Chinese cosmetics are not good enough to sell in Europe.
Another obvious thing is the cost of extracting human tissues would be prohibitive.


62 posted on 03/24/2006 9:44:28 PM PST by flg
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To: flg

Welcome to FR...


63 posted on 03/24/2006 9:56:39 PM PST by null and void (Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
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To: null and void
I don't think I want to know about Girl Scout Cookies...

LOL. FR Hall of Fame candidate!

64 posted on 03/24/2006 11:43:21 PM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: indthkr
do the guards at Chinese prisons say, "It puts the lotion on its skin!" a lot?
65 posted on 03/25/2006 2:02:40 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: LongElegantLegs
This thread needs a picture of...

The ugliest lips on earth?

66 posted on 03/25/2006 4:22:44 AM PST by raybbr
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To: flg

The article is from The Guardian, major UK mainstream press, so, no, it's not some unattributed tabloid screech.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1568467,00.html

And you should do some research on developing collagen implements from organic tissues - the cosmetic industry already do it with animal tissues, using human tissues is perfectly within the relm of possible applications. And you don't need scale of millions or even thousands, only a small specific sample is needed for base material, so it's quite possible to "harvest" from just a few and still make a tidy profit. Also, to your other point about no Chinese cosmetic company in Europe, note that the Chinese are just selling the raw material, not their own branded finished products.

Chinese society is brutal to those who falls through the cracks - abuse and injustice against the people in the margins are rampant - the poorer and more marginalized people's lives just aren't worth very much in China, there is a lot of these types of activities going on.

Even in Singapore I have read in newspapers ads for fast track organ tranplant in China, one has to wonder where / how one can get an organ transplant on demand as long as one can pay up the molla.


67 posted on 03/25/2006 12:40:57 PM PST by Republican Party Reptile
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To: Richard Kimball

I haven't a clue what you're post intends to prove.

People make money from all sorts of evil things. What does any of that have to do with Capitalism and investing.

Are you claiming because some Chinese company is doing evil then that tars all trade with China?

Recently Americans have been arrested for trading in human remains. They did so for reasons of capitalism- making money. What does that have to do with the rest of decent everyday American capitalism?


68 posted on 03/25/2006 1:22:47 PM PST by Sabramerican
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To: HereInTheHeartland

>Doesn't that sound like just a wee bit of a stretch, even for >the Red Chi Coms?

No.


69 posted on 03/26/2006 1:42:29 AM PST by kevin_in_so_cal (http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org - http://www.olympicwatch.org)
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To: indthkr; MNJohnnie
Yup.

The corrollary between the Chinese Communist Regime and NAZI Germany gets more exact with every passing year.

That is their ideal.

And the faux traders try to cover their eyes, their ears...and want to cover the mouths of anyone who happens to tell the truth.

70 posted on 03/27/2006 8:16:56 AM PST by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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To: krb

"Soylent Yellow"

You baaad.


71 posted on 03/27/2006 8:18:08 AM PST by freedomlover (This tagline has been pulled - - - - OK?)
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To: MaDuce

Reminds me of a "bad marketing" story about Gerber baby food (w/Gerber baby on the label) marketed somewhere overseas and the locals thought it had babies in it.

In the same list as the "Nova" sold in Mexico.

Mighta been an urban legend I dunno.


72 posted on 03/27/2006 8:20:50 AM PST by freedomlover (This tagline has been pulled - - - - OK?)
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To: Paul Ross
The company was not identified by name for legal reasons and it is unclear whether collagen made from the skin of prisoners was in the research stage or in actual production

Sure. Ah if you cannot document the source nor name the company this is not "Journalism" this is propaganda. But then the Whine all the Time Choir has never been real intrested in facts merely the next excuse to spew the DNC Collectivist Economic dogma

73 posted on 03/27/2006 11:45:26 AM PST by MNJohnnie (The Left has their own coalition, "The Coalition of the Whining". ---Beagle8U)
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To: RightWhale

Or neomorts for that matter.


74 posted on 03/27/2006 11:50:03 AM PST by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: MNJohnnie
Take up your journalistic complaints with the British paper which reported this, and actually interviewed the agent for the company, The Guardian.
75 posted on 03/27/2006 1:03:01 PM PST by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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To: Paul Ross; MNJohnnie
.....journalistic complaints......

The Independant may not be the best / reliable source in the world, I don't know much about the Guardian.

Regardless, if this storey has even a whiff of truth to it, it's pretty disturbing IMO.
76 posted on 03/28/2006 1:13:08 PM PST by indthkr
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To: indthkr

That's OK, their adds say "No animals were harmed in the research or manufacture of this product."

So, its all OK.


77 posted on 03/28/2006 1:14:30 PM PST by G Larry (Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Didn't the Nazis make lampshades out of the skins of concentration camp victims?

I heard that story of Japanese WWII officers, who especially preferred US Military tatoos on the skin
78 posted on 03/28/2006 1:23:07 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (It's time to play Cowboys and Muslims)
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