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Cosmetics firm using remains of executed Chinese
World Tribune (UK) ^ | 3/23/06 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; biotech; china; cosmetics; humanbonefurniture; humanfatsoap; humanhairstuffing; humantissue; plyersntoothfillings; prisoners; skinlampshades; walmartsfriend
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To: indthkr

And the best part is, it's really cheap.


41 posted on 03/24/2006 7:46:01 PM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

I'm with you.

Turn the page and there is probably a picture of Mao shaking hands with an alien bat boy.


42 posted on 03/24/2006 7:49:24 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: indthkr

This isn't really that new. They've been using aborted fetuses for other things for years. That is one Godless country and while I'm sure there are many wonderful and sweet Chinese people, the oppression there is palpable.

They announced on the Mission News Network the other morning about several house church pastors that are missing. Meanwhile, one of the pastors who'd been taken some time ago wrote about his experiences as a captive and the torture was so horrible, I just broke down and cried. I mean, you get the usual, beatings and stuff, but they have these helmets - I think they call them noise helmets - and they emit a high, piercing horrible sound directly into the person's ears for long periods of time. Also, they do not let them sleep - they try to drive people insane.

If anyone doesn't think there is spiritual warfare going on, they aren't paying attention.

Okay, now I can get off my soapbox (I feel so much better now).


43 posted on 03/24/2006 7:53:34 PM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: indthkr
My GOD You people ... haven't you ever wondered where BABY OIL comes from !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its from unwanted Chinese babies!!!!!
44 posted on 03/24/2006 7:59:11 PM PST by MaDeuce (Do it to them, before they do it to you! (MaDuce = M2HB .50 BMG))
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To: TXFireman

ping


45 posted on 03/24/2006 8:01:51 PM PST by Jonx6
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To: indthkr

Nice.


46 posted on 03/24/2006 8:02:45 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: MaDuce

I don't think I want to know about Girl Scout Cookies...


47 posted on 03/24/2006 8:03:39 PM PST by null and void (Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
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To: 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.

The benefits of free trade never cease to amaze me.

In the midwest somewhere a few years ago, a kid ended up with lead poisoning after accidentally swallowing some cheap chinese toy from one of those vending machines.
48 posted on 03/24/2006 8:03:54 PM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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To: indthkr

All these posts and no mention of Fight Club.


49 posted on 03/24/2006 8:04:33 PM PST by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: indthkr

Holy jumping sh*t!!!


50 posted on 03/24/2006 8:05:35 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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To: CindyDawg

"What products do we sell in the U.S. that contains baby tissue?"

No cosmetic products that I know of if thats what your asking. But baby parts are sold, mostly to research firms. To be more accurate the parts aren't sold. Orders are given and the tissue is harvested according to the order. Then access to the tissue is sold. The tissue itself is not sold.


51 posted on 03/24/2006 8:15:00 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: indthkr

It's just recycling. What's all the fuss? Sheez.


52 posted on 03/24/2006 8:38:11 PM PST by manwiththehands (Islam is as Islam does. Islam is as Islam allows.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yes, the Nazis made lampshades and other wicked products of human slaughter, and our horror of such persists to this day.

Where is the horror over human products out of China?


53 posted on 03/24/2006 8:39:05 PM PST by elcid1970
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To: indthkr

For some reason, the old Calgon commercial from the Seventies comes to mind:

"Ancient Chinese secret..."


54 posted on 03/24/2006 8:43:37 PM PST by RichInOC (...oops, did I say that out loud? Bad Rich. BAD Rich.)
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To: indthkr; Sabramerican
Sabramerican, when I posted a question to you about just this type of thing, you told me it was "One of the most absurd posts ever addressed to me on FR." Okay, here it is. Not hypothetical, not made up, and not, as you put it, "Too crazy to merit a response." I always believed that your response to me on that post was simply a dodge, because you didn't want to answer the question. You said you believe in captialism. Okay, here's a Chinese firm making a profit by using skin from executed people to make cosmetics.

It turns a profit. Would you invest in it?

The original thread was here, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1579125/posts. The point I was making was that capitalism is not the end all be all, and that the fact that something turned a profit was not, in and of itself, enough justification. When I questioned you on whether or not killing people was okay, you replied by becoming insulting. Here it is again. According to your posts on the other thread, if it's legal in the country of origin, it's okay, as long as it turns a profit. This is legal in China. Is it okay to traffic in dead body parts of executed people if it turns a profit?

55 posted on 03/24/2006 9:05:25 PM PST by Richard Kimball (I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
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To: LongElegantLegs
She looks as if she kissed a muffler.
56 posted on 03/24/2006 9:08:55 PM PST by Nik Naym (Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than Dick Cheney's shotgun.)
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To: indthkr

So as I see it, Traitorkerry's face is made from dead Chinese. No wonder he sounds so....well, so... international.

Bet they use the soft tissue from the buttocks. Seems to fit the a$$ face.


57 posted on 03/24/2006 9:12:16 PM PST by Gator113
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To: Ciexyz
"I hope that {stuff} never makes it into Estee Lauder, Clinique or Lancome."

Well, most of the really expensive perfumes use whale puke.

I am not kidding.
58 posted on 03/24/2006 9:13:23 PM PST by Nik Naym (Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than Dick Cheney's shotgun.)
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To: MaDuce
"My GOD You people ... haven't you ever wondered where BABY OIL comes from !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

If olive oil comes from olives I guess it makes sense. So, does it not also follow that virgin wool comes from ugly sheep?
59 posted on 03/24/2006 9:16:49 PM PST by Nik Naym (Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than Dick Cheney's shotgun.)
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To: indthkr

Did they quote from the Epoch Times? This is a religious sect spewing venom on all things Chinese. It's impossible for the Chinese to use human tissues for cosmetics, unless you talk about millions of people are executed in order to provide "raw material". The scale is just not there for this kinda "application". Besides, even in China, the executed's body needs to be returned to the family. How can this large scale use of human skin be concealed? This story does not quote any source, which loudly says it's a cooked up story.


60 posted on 03/24/2006 9:39:37 PM PST by flg
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