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Zulu Elephant
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Holy sh*t!
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A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.
Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about". |
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t is unclear whether any of the "aesthetic fillers" such as collagen available in the UK or on the internet are supplied by the company, which cannot be identified for legal reasons. It is also unclear whether collagen made from prisoners' skin is in the research stage or is in production. However, the Guardian has learned that the company has exported collagen products to the UK in the past. An agent told customers it had also exported to the US and European countries, and that it was trying to develop fillers using tissue from aborted foetuses. |
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When formally approached by the Guardian, the agent denied the company was using skin harvested from executed prisoners. However, he had already admitted it was doing precisely this during a number of conversations with a researcher posing as a Hong Kong businessman. The Press Complaints Commission's code of practice permits subterfuge if there is no other means of investigating a matter of public interest.
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."
The agent said his company exported to the west via Hong Kong."We are still in the early days of selling these products, and clients from abroad are quite surprised that China can manufacture the same human collagen for less than 5% of what it costs in the west." Skin from prisoners used to be even less expensive, he said. "Nowadays there is a certain fee that has to be paid to the court." |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/s...1568467,00.html
I normally don't have a problem with using stem cells or anything like that. But for beauty products?
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Pekka
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em seu burro dos pais!
Feb 2002
time: 07:37
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those chinese people who were executed no longer needs their skin, that's a fact.
Now, if we can have a situation, where this skin can be used to help out the people who have unfortunate condition of loose skin, carrying this stigma in today's society, a condition that can be taken cared of .. then why shouldn't we take care of that problem?
We know that we can't possibly treat everyone of the loose skin situation, so this can't be part of the .. medicaid or what ever have you in your countries, the public health care. And there wou ldn't be enough skin to begin with, unless of course...
anyway, this is a Chinese contribution to the ideals of beauty, that they so much want to hold up and say 'we want to be just like you! We admire beauty! We used to break our backs for you, sweat for you, but now we are ready to take our skin off for you, that's how much we think you are number one!'.
So why would we be so cruel and hypocrite not to let them follow their dream and do what they want? Most of them are poor and this is the only way they can contribute to us, so we should respect that and let them.
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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:37
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I blame Bush.
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Jon Miller
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my comment shows that I Consider it happening in the West as well
JM
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13-09-2005 15:54
to using the skin and tissue of unwanted blacks and asians for the health and beauty of western whites
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