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2005-09-14 China-Japan-Koreas

No animals harmed in making Chinese skin cream. Humans? Well...

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Posted by Jackal 2005-09-14 13:45|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The agent told the researcher: "A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoner and aborted foetus." This material, he said, was being bought from "bio tech" companies based in the northern province of Heilongjiang, and was being developed elsewhere in China.

He suggested that the use of skin and other tissues harvested from executed prisoners was not uncommon. "In China it is considered very normal and I was very shocked that western countries can make such a big fuss about this," he said. Speaking from his office in northern China, he added: "The government has put some pressure on all the medical facilities to keep this type of work in low profile."

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Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-14 15:40|| 2005-09-14 15:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Cosmetics makes sense. Not much of a mark-up in lampshades....

Posted by Pappy 2005-09-14 19:41|| 2005-09-14 19:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Executed convict penis much more powerful (and tasty) than tiger penis.

Posted by Hung Lo 2005-09-14 20:23|| 2005-09-14 20:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Like olden times when certain spies, assassins, or assorted bad guyz would impersonate an enemy by de facto skinning him and later wearing his face.I'll bite, doesn't Socie-Comie Progressivism imply that society was suppos to positively evolve beyond such primitive, base acts, instead of status quo and regressing backward.

Posted by JOsephMendiola 2005-09-14 23:09|| 2005-09-14 23:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know.

I was under the impression that Heliongjiang was kinda-sorta left behind in the big capitalist boom, sorta like the rust belt here in the 70's and 80's, and wasn't exactly known as a high-tech research center in the country.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-14 23:27|| 2005-09-14 23:27|| Front Page Top

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