Posted on 03/24/2006 6:58:47 PM PST by indthkr
A Chinese cosmetics company has been using skin taken from the bodies of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, a London newspaper reported.
An agent for the company informed customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they had been shot.
The agent said some of the company‘s products have been exported to Britain, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts was “traditional" and nothing to “make such a big fuss about,“ the Guardian reported In addition to ethical concerns, there is the potential risk of infection from the harvested skin products.
The company was not identified by name for legal reasons and it is unclear whether collagen made from the skin of prisoners was in the research stage or in actual production.
“A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoners and aborted fetus," the agent was quoted as saying. The material, he said, was being bought from “biotech" companies based in Heilongjiang Province 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.
In the past, human rights groups have charged that China was using organs harvested from executed prisoners for medical transplants both domestically and internationally. China executed about 3,400 prisoners last year, according to Amnesty International.
Bookcovers. And coin purses. Our European ancestors were remarkably creative with human skin. And even some 18th and 19th century Americans. Human bones have found some rather creative uses, outside of cadaver transplants and implants. All of these things aside, most Americans find it easier to smear dead sheep collagen on their faces. There is some ethical dilemma about doing the same with dead human collagen, even for the most hardcore liberal, pro-abort, "animal rights", and anti-human types.
"China is not alone in harvesting tissue of deceased humans."
Its done in the US as well, we are just a little more clinical about it.
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Erm... Not that I defend the Commie Chinese, but f'gossake, that's the World Tribune. And it's also the rumor I heard 30+ years ago about donated blood plasma (Plasma going into lipstick.)
What products do we sell in the U.S. that contains baby tissue? I won't even comment on China. The beam in the eye, thing.
moral absolutes ping?
Gack!!! Really makes all that make up worth it. Really, why would one want to put dead people on their faces?
Not the best sourced article is it?
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but loose his soul?...
"Jesus of Nazareth".. Matthew 16:26
Like my using their makeup will make me look like that? Sure......
Not that just because they are not alone in doing this is any kind of defense for the atrocities they committ...
Heck the USA has killed over 44 million pre born US citizens since Roe V Wade...and lots of folks are making a bundle off of this industry....too
I hope that shit never makes it into Estee Lauder, Clinique or Lancome.
Talk about ill-informed, no Sir it was Ed Gein who
skinned his victims and used their skin for light diffusing material.
Oh how grisly.............good God.............
"Wool" watch caps and socks from "Jew hair".
And even bars of soap. Socialists are nothing if not "efficient"...
With a name like "Rotting Yellow Flesh" it has to be good!!!
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