Chinese people eating babies as delicacy?

[faceless]

Hong Kong Reports Mainland Chinese Eating Infants
The Next Magazine
Mar 29, 2007

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.

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I've no idea if there's any truth to this or if it's just old-style propaganda to promote distrust of China, but it's quite the story none-the-less...

[major.tom]

I have to stop reading this site before supper time.

I'm not inclined to believe it either. But it certainly paints a grisly picture.

[Skylace]

Some one has been reading a lot of Jonathan Swift.

[Marcella-FL]

check this entry on snopes ...

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/fetus.asp

[pirtybirdy]

[Karl]

If anyone reading this is in any way religious. The GOG and the MAGOG which are mentioned in the bible and the koran.
If you are in any doubt
"they are as numerous as grains of sand in the sea"
"they eat anything and everything including that which is forbidden as well as the living flesh"
the wall is not the great wall but in fact the new three gorges dam

[Karl]

Paul McCartney slams Chinese fur practices, rules out future concerts in China
Legendary musician Sir Paul McCartney has boycotted China in response to a preview of BBC news footage that was filmed undercover at a fur market in Guangzhou, China. The footage shows animals (particularly dogs and cats) being thrown from the top of buses and being dropped into boiling water. McCartney's ex-wife, Heather, also watched the footage and alleged that some footage she had seen clearly showed that the animals were alive when they were skinned. The footage, which was filmed by an investigator connected to the animal rights group PETA, shows cats squirming in a bag before being thrown into boiling water, and then skinned in a laundrette drier-like machine.McCartney slammed the practices, saying, "It's like something out of the dark ages. And they seem to get a kick out of it. They're just sick, sick people," referring to the apparent smiles and laughter of the workers handling the animals as they are killed.He and his wife called for a boycott of Chinese goods, adding that this was unacceptable behaviour from the nation to host the next Olympics.However, the Chinese Ambassador to London's spokesperson said that China is not to blame. "The fur trade mostly feeds markets in the US and Europe. This fur is not consumed in China. So the Americans and Europeans should accept the blame."

[IRiSHMaFIA]

I read this article a while back. No matter how much I detest China for their lack of decency towards animal rights this is just too far fetched.

[nico]

I first saw photos of unborn fetuses being eaten in some japanese restaurants, 5 years ago on the internet.
Now I hear about the chinese and the Taiwanese.
Maybe next year we hear about the the Filipinos & etc.
I can't say I really buy it.

The only thing I have heard to be real and gross, is the practise in some south east asian countries involving little wild monkeys tied under a table with a hole in the middle, having their skull half way out the hole suddenly sliced side ways and their brain consumed raw and fresh.
An indonasian friend of mine told me the story.