Human Hair Market Growing Fast

Sarasota Herald Tribune / The Associated Press ^ | January 6, 2008 | By Tere Figueras Negrete

[freekitty]

ROTFLOL

[xc1427]

It would take about three races, and the good thing about it—it will grow back!!!

[Blue Highway]

I might try it on my peppers. Wonder if it would work on Roses, I’ve been having good luck with fine Pine Bark mulch.

[Calpernia]

>>>>>>The mats stored in southern Miami-Dade County are part of a world marketplace for human hair. Uses range from the obvious, such as false eyelashes and wigs, to the more obscure: it is a common raw-material source for l-cysteine, an amino acid frequently used in baked goods such as pizza dough and bagels.

China and India exported more than $154 million worth of human hair last year, according to United Nations trade statistics. They are Blacker's main suppliers.

 

Background:
 

http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/01/06/human-hair-market-growing-fast.aspx

 

Abstract
Recent reports of problem foods in Mainland China have raised global concerns about the safety of Chinese food products. Drawing on reliable data extracted from Chinese newspapers, magazines and the Internet, this report, the second in the series, takes a closer look at the hair-made soy sauce, a common kitchen-accessory for marinating and seasoning foods. It seeks to inform the scientific and medical communities regarding the potential short- and long-term epidemic consequences of consuming such soy sauce

 

 

[NOTE:  The journalists then found the amino acid syrup manufacturer (a bioengineering company) in Hubei province. When asking how the amino acid syrup (or powder) was generated, the manufacturer replied that the powder was generated from human hair. Because the human hair was gathered from salon, barbershop and hospitals around the country, it was unhygienic and mixed with condom, used hospital cottons, used menstrual cycle pad, used syringe, etc.]

 

 

This company makes amino acids and sells them as a food supplement out of Shenyang. I can't help but wonder what else the amino acids are made out of. The hospital they harvest body parts from is right there.

The technicians admitted that they would not consume the human-hair soy sauce because the dirty and unhygienic hair was used to make amino acid syrup ( ^{1, 2} ). A quality monitoring staff also revealed that though the hair may not be toxic itself, it definitely consisted of bacteria and other micro-organisms ( ¹ ).

See main link for foot notes. I'm too grossed out to update all the html

http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijto/vol2n1/soy.xml

Step one: collect Human Hair from Hospital.

WHAT HOSPITAL? Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital?

 

 

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060323-114842-5680r.htm
China harvesting inmates' organs, journalist says

Excerpt:

A Chinese official was the first person to reveal that secret medical work was being done at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, in Sujiatun, a suburb of Shenyang, the major city in northeastern China, he said.

Mr. Jin then said he found out that a large underground prison was built beneath the hospital and that members of the outlawed Falun Gong religious group were being held there. As many as 6,000 people are thought to be held prisoner at the underground facility, he said.

The hospital is harvesting the organs of the prisoners, including kidneys, livers, and eye parts, he said. The organs are then sold to people, from both China and abroad, who need medical organ transplants.

 

 

 

The National Traditional Chinese Medicine Thrombus Treatment Center in Shenyang City. According to a former nurse who worked there, the Sujiatun death camp is in an underground complex connected to this hospital.

The furnace unit on the southwest side of the hospital. There are two doors leading to the underground complex of the Sujiatun death camp. According to the witnesses, the remains of Falun Gong practitioners are incinerated here after their organs are extracted.

[Calpernia]

HAIR is what’s for dinner.

[Calpernia]

yuppers

[Mr. Brightside]

[freekitty]

If what you are using works, I wouldn’t change it; but if you are an avid gardner like me; the new is always so tempting. LOL

[Paleo Conservative]

[Blue Highway]

Yeah I am a sucker for using new things so long as it’s got some benefit. Been happy using coconut coir to substitute for peat moss. Has a neutral pH and stays moist and aerates well.

[freekitty]

I have some new Austrailan orchid bark that I will be using pretty soon. I like peat moss but it can drown your plants if you use too much and that’s easy to do. I love to use beer on the plants. It does something to the enzymines. You have to be careful indoors for plants on the ground as your pets seem to love the soil mixed with beer. I came home one day to find all of my floor plants overturned with the soil all over the place and pups with dirt all over their faces. LOL

[Neidermeyer]

My in-laws didn’t understand what “root-tone” was ,, (spoke limited English) and administered it via a pump sprayer to about 1/4 acre of orchids ... I’m not endorsing this use but in their case it caused tremendous root growth and subsequent increases in foilage and bloom quantity ... I use the coconut mat for orchids.. the best product for other plants I’ve found is super absorbent polymer ,, the soil here is 100% sand and drains too fast ,, this will hold moisture but not cause rot... using that you can get your plants up to size in about half the time with less watering... try saturating the crystals with a dose of liquid fertilizer before you mix it in the soil!

[SuziQ]

Nah, the Chinese have enough folks that, just in a typical day, hundreds of thousands of them are likely getting their hair cut. That’s a lot of potential mats!

[dschapin]

That would all depend on his source for the hair. If China is getting this hair from persecuted Christians and other political prisoners (which is likely) then trading in this hair would be in the same moral league as those who sold the hair that the NAZI’s removed from the jews before they were murdered at Auschwitz.

[freekitty]

Believe it or not; I have heard of that use with root tone. I say why not because of the orchids roots usually hanging all around and outside of the pot. LOL Try removing one of those puppies from the pot after neglecting the repotting for a while. Just get your chainsaw out. Also, I don’t grow my orchids in soil(except terriestrial ones). They are grown in bark. I am not a big fertilizer like I was when I started out. Of course, I did everything wrong; now I still do everything wrong; but not as much. You cannot say you grow anything unless you have killed a plant.

Sorry, I don’t understand about the crystals; but it sounds like a good idea. Are you referring to marbles?

I prefer the catts even though they don’t don’t bloom as long usually as the phalonopsis(moth orchids). Dendrobiums are great except that noble. It can be tricky.

[hellbender]

I wouldn’t put it beyond them to shear corpses, prisoners, and non-humans like yaks if they could pass that off as human hair.

[Freedom2specul8]

oh man, no kidding. I’m SO GLAD I stopped eating white bread, bagels....but pizza dough? UGGGH!

[Gabz]

Hair used in an agricultural context has far less of a YUCK factor than hair used as a source for food products used IN food.

I totally agree.

It really does work as a deer repelant, but so does dog hair.

But I never did think of it for mulch.......hmmmmm

[design engineer]

thats disgusting.. but what about soy sauce in Chinese restaurants in US ?

[nw_arizona_granny]

When I think of hair, I always recall that the Food Handlers classes put on my the Health Departments, considered it a
health hazard, back in 1950.

We had to wear hair nets, to keep it out of the food we served.

If you look back at the paintings of several hundred years ago, the women wore ‘nets’ on their hair, to confine it.

In the new world we can eat it...........no thanks.