Posted on 05/03/2007 8:31:02 AM PDT by varyouga
You have to be kidding right? Unfortunately this is really happening!
The Next Magazine, a weekly publication from Hong Kong, reported that infant corpses and fetuses have become the newest supplements for health and beauty in China. Not only is the placenta considered a beauty remedy, but also aborted fetuses are much sought after delicacies. In Guangdong, gourmet body parts are in high demand and can even be purchased through hospitals. The magazine's investigations into this form of cannibalism took them to Liaoning province.
According to The Next Magazine, during a banquet hosted by a Taiwanese businessman, a servant Ms Liu from Liaoning province on the mainland inadvertently revealed the habit of eating infants/fetuses in Liaoning province and her intention to return for the supplement due to health concerns. The Taiwanese women present were horrified.
Ms Liu also disclosed that even though people can afford the human parts there are still waiting lists and those with the right connections get the "highest quality" human parts, which translates to the more mature fetuses. A male fetus is considered the "prime" human part.
At the The Next Magazine's request, Ms Liu personally escorted the reporter to a location where a fetus was being prepared. The reporter observed a woman chopping up a male fetus and making soup from the placenta. During the process, the woman even tried to comfort everyone by saying, "Don't be afraid, this is just the flesh of a higher animal."
The boy's remains were cremated in the mountains in accordance with the customs of the region.
In fact, in China, reports about meals made from infant flesh have surfaced from time to time. A video is on the Internet for people to view. In the introduction, the Chinese claim that eating a human fetus is an art form.
On March 22, 2003, police in Bingyan, Guangxi Province seized 28 female babies smuggled in a truck from Yulin, Guangxi Province going to Houzhou in Anhui Province. The oldest baby was only three months old. The babies were packed three or four to a bag and many of them were near death—none were claimed by their parents.
On the morning of October 9, 2004, a person rifling through the garbage on the outskirts of Jiuquan city in the Suzhou region, found dismembered babies in a dumpster. There were two heads, two torsos, four arms, and six legs. According to the investigation, these corpses were no more than a week old and they had been dismembered after cooking.
Although China has laws that prohibit the eating of human fetus, the regime's forced abortions to ensure the one child policy is strictly adhered to thereby creating many opportunities for these sorts of atrocities to occur.
What would make people do such a thing without any fear of condemnation? Since Mao's Cultural Revolution, a complete lack of morality and respect for human life has become the norm in China. Over time, domination by the Chinese Communist regime has led to inhuman behavior and human rights violations resulting in abnormal practices such as cannibalism.
It’s a rehash of the same story that’s been floating around the net for five or six years. It’s an urban legend.
lol well you can eat bear....
I was just about to post this, too, from snopes.com.
I certainly hope it is only a horrible urban legend.
— JoeRepublic
http://www.ciu.edu/library/document/booklist.pdf
In six pages of elegant, deadpan prose, the master of 18th century satire sets forth an ingenious solution to alleviate the Irish famine: poor people should dismember and eat their babies. “A young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.” Swift’s intention, of course, is to shock his readers out of their moral turpitude: by pushing the ethics of utilitarianism to an absurd but logical extreme, he shows how civilized people may become barbarians when they divorce reason from God’s moral law. In the prism of this masterful satire we can see the ruthless rationale proposed by Nazi leaders for a “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem. We may also gain a better understanding of the long-term implications of our own society’s pragmatic justification for abortion-on-demand and deadly harvesting of human embryos for their “spare parts.” The terrible irony is that in cannibalizing its young to satisfy short-term gratification, a civilization effectively commits suicide. Sadly, today we must acknowledge that Swift was a prophet.
I meant Johnathan Swift - sorry
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