Posted on 06/04/2007 1:48:01 PM PDT by PghBaldy
A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.
Agents for the 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at taipeitimes.com ...
>>>>The current issue of National Geographic has an interesting article on the rapid growth of business and housing in China. It gives a lot of insight into how things really are over there. Factories spring up overnight in abandoned warehouses, they poach experienced workers away from competing factories for pennies more.
And for those of you that don’t have a National Geographic handy.....
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Eminent domain, communist Chinese-style
The greed of capitalism, untempered by the great commandment, is an awful thing to behold. A facist nation that rejects the value of the ten commandments can use the engine of capitalism to enslave the world far more effectively than can a communist one.
Unbelieveable!!!
Thanks for the ping - I think.
Revolting stuff.
Agreed
Why no vitriol directed at them ?
They aren't the ones trying to trash American's doing business with the Chinese. Believe me when I tell you that I have no love in my heart for those that butcher babies and just because one has an education it doesn't make them human. This thread is about allegations being used by the liberal press (I don't care which country the media outlet resides in) to further labor union's anti-Chinese, anti-Corporate management agenda. This article is just another in a long litany of reports against American businesses (like Wal-Mart for example) that in my opinion Unions hate.
I'm reading between the lines.
Excellent details! Thanks.
Harvested Organs
Tainted pet foods
Unhealthy cosmetics
Untrustworthy food stuffs
etc......
A hideously long list, including but not limited to raising St. Bernards for food and other dogs and cats for fur. They don't even bother to kill them, just skin them alive to save time.
In the strange bedfellows department, looks like PETA is becoming our friend. Wonder how much they've researched other Chinese "farming" practices, like butchering sick hogs and cattle.
I look askance at every meat item in Wal-Mart (no thanks to all of it) and now at other markets as well. If it isn't butchered on the spot from whole carcasses, I don't want it. And come to think of it, those carcasses might be frozen in China too.
Some expert interviewed on radio said that all burger you find in your supermarket comes pre-ground from huge suppliers. Your local market might regrind it finer and package it under it's own label, dating it that day. The only way to get safe burger is to purchase a piece of steak and have the butcher grind it in front of you--or grind it at home yourself. I have an old Vita-Mix that will grind pieces of steak into burger but I'm sure there are better appliances for the job.
Crap is crap, I don’t care who makes it, and the Chinese not taking responsibility for defective products that have killed people and animals is beyond criminal and patently absurd. How you can defend what’s occurred (sounds like that’s what you’re doing) is bizarre.
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