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| Chinese Tanker Had A Container Full Of Dead Americans |
| 2018-02-10 |
| [Daily Caller] Exporting companies are using Chinese ships, planes, and trucks to transport dead Americans across the world for research purposes, according to a Thursday report from Reuters. A Hong Kong flagged cargo ship departed South Carolina in July carrying 6,000 pounds of human remains valued at $67,204. The container’s temperature was set to 5 degrees Fahrenheit to prevent the parts from spoiling. Relatives of the dead, meanwhile, did not realize their loved ones’ remains were being dismembered and sent to Europe and elsewhere, the report notes. Body brokers like Oregon-based MedCure rely on lax regulations to export heads, shoulders, knees and toes to Mexico, China, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, among several other countries. Plastic surgeons in Germany use heads to practice new techniques, while thousands of parts are shipped overseas annually. "There are people who wouldn’t necessarily mind where the specimens were sent if they were fully informed," Brandi Schmitt, who directs a body donation system at the University of California, told reporters about the trade, which is still shrouded in mystery. "But clearly there are plenty of donors that do mind and that don’t feel like they’re getting enough information." The FBI raided MedCure in November, which culminated in a federal investigation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 ...I think I've seen this movie before - on STARZ at about 0300.... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-02-10 14:00 |
| #12 l suspect someone will have a real bad time trying to train and control their new zombie army when the time comes. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-10 13:39 |
| #11 #7Don't they have enough of their own dead people? --Abu Uluque The Communist Rationalist World-View still has to deal with millennia of Confucianism and messing with your relatives bodies is a big No-No (as in Death Penalty for Grave Robbing). Barbarians, |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-02-10 13:28 |
| #10 Dead White Western Guys... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-02-10 13:25 |
| #9 "Made in Mexico with US components". |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-02-10 13:03 |
| #8 We could see a spike in the Cook County absentee voting rolls this year. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-10 12:34 |
| #7 Don't they have enough of their own dead people? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-02-10 12:30 |
| #6 CNS Soylent Green? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-02-10 11:17 |
| #5 When? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-10 09:45 |
| #4 Parts is parts. I wonder when / if these materials will be incorporated into food or pharmaceuticals and brought back into the USA. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-10 09:26 |
| #3 Why, because they can. Fewer cultural taboos with Americans. First human eggs grown in laboratory |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-10 09:01 |
| #2 transport dead Americans across the world for research purposes Why? They're full of additives and god knows what contamination from drinking water polluted with disposed birth control chemicals. It's not like there's going to be a solid baseline to study from. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-02-10 08:16 |
| #1 Some people will sell anything. MedCure: Whole Body Donation |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-10 08:08 |