SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

[tawadi]

Source: cbsnews

May 7, 2012 5:11 PM

SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.

The capsules were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.

Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. Chinese officials ordered an investigation into the production of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborns last year.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501712_162-57429494/skorea-finds-smuggled-capsules-contain-human-flesh/

[Mojorabbit]

1. Ewwww nt

[Orrex]

2. I'm going to forego my usual snarky response in favor of a tasteful WTF

[Marie Marie]

3. Is there

anything that China won't export for profit?

[Skittles]

11. no

[freshwest]

15. They've sold off organs of the condemned, keeping them alive until they get a match.

Ailing Americans seek Chinese organs

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/06/ailing-americans-seek-chinese-organs.html

Take a read, pretty gruesome stuff. That was in 2006. IDK if things have changed.

So, I'd no, say there isn't anything they would not sell, be it poison medicine or food or even plastic rice as they were caught selling to Vietnam.

And Bush just had to borrow all that money from them to go to Iraq... Guess who's in the catbird's seat now...

[Historic NY]

4. The Cannibal pill...............oh my.

[MADem]

5. Oh. YUCK. Disgusting. Horrible. Nasty. Dumb. Awful.

And...WTF????

[Arctic Dave]

6. ??

WTF indeed.

[glinda]

7. Is any of this in pet food through "vitamin supplements". geeeeze. Yikes!

[Lasher]

8. This makes my skin crawl.

People like these shouldn't be allowed to live on the planet.

[emilyg]

12. +100

[harmonicon]

20. Why?

I think it's screwed up, but this is one of those instances where we see that there really are different cultures. The Western trend of "multiculturalism" really just means that differences is accepted so long as it's not really different. This is a real difference. You would kill people for that?

[Lasher]

26. Do you think consumption of baby corpses should be condoned?

A culture is not different unless they're selling Soylent Green capsules on the street? You don't know where those baby corpses are coming from and you are trying to justify this ignorant depravity. And by the way, I didn't say that I wanted to kill anyone.

It is good to embrace the diversity of other cultures. But we Americans have moral values of our own, so you can keep the baby cannibalism and honor killings, thank you very much.

[harmonicon]

27. What is saying people don't belong on this planet if not advocating their death?

I'm not trying to justify the practice at all. I think it's disgusting and certainly shouldn't be allowed in any place I've lived, but I don't know that it's right for me to judge someone in China or Korea for it. I think murder is wrong in every instance, but cannibalism? I won't be involved with it, and it's not allowed here, but if someone I will likely never meet and will likely have zero impact on my life wants to be a cannibal, I don't know that I should bother getting hot under the collar about it.

[Lasher]

28. You are condoning cannibalism of babies.

I do not share your conception of tolerance.

[harmonicon]

29. It's not tolerance, and it's not condoning.

If I had any say in the matter, I wouldn't tolerate it, but I don't have any say. However, I'm certainly not going to say that someone on the other side of the planet has no right to life because they live in a different way than I do.

[glinda]

9. kick also

[truthisfreedom]

10. Ignorance and insanity.

A combination that's been controlling humans for far too long.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

13. I don't believe it.

And I take this article with a very large grain of salt.

[kurtzapril4]

14. Tastes like chicken? n/t

[bluedigger]

16. "No sicknesses have been reported from ingesting the capsules."

I'm a little sick, just from knowing about it.

[alittlelark]

17. I didn't want to read this. Really, I didn't

[rayofreason]

18. Profiting from the 1-child policy. Sick. n/t

[Dogtown]

22. That's exactly what they want you to think.

See post #21, please.

[David__77]

19. The right-wing S. Korean government is shameless.

They have a real vendetta against China.

[Dogtown]

21. I suspect this is total bullshit

intended to outrage and galvanize fundies who WANT to believe any nonsense related to aborted fetuses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_Farming_Prohibition_Act

Realistically, if there was an actual market for this "product" what would really be in those capsules would be fetal pig tissue.
Cheaper, and not illegal.


This is as sensational as the Egyptian Necrophilia Act propaganda. And intended for the same audience.

[drm604]

23. Honestly, this sounds like propaganda.

If there was a market for such things, probably what would happen is that someone would just fill the capsules with powdered milk or sugar or something and then claim that it was babies. They'd be breaking the law either way and fraud is a much lesser offense than actually using babies.

Think about the number of babies or fetuses that would be required to actually make a profit doing this. This seems totally unlikely.

[ehrnst]

24. It seems like the one source for this information is S Korea Customs.

"Ministry of Health spokesman Deng Haihua said an investigation launched last August found no proof that such capsules were being manufactured in China, the official Xinhua News Agency said."

Entirely possible that these are being marketed as such to a certain population, and don't contain such.

However, this does sound like propaganda.

[mopinko]

25. bullshit.

a tidier bit of propaganda joseph goebbles couldn't assemble. give me a break.

[Sarcasticus]

30. Human flesh will soon be a delicacy at GOP Banquets

I'm half joking :/