The Seoul Times
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:33 EST
One Baby Policy Blamed for Killing Babies in China
Some of the Chinese people are known to be eating babies and the news circulated through the internet or via Email communication is shocking the world.
An Email report received by The Seoul Times confirmed that news with several vivid and appalling pictures of human embryos fetuses being made into a soup for human consumption.
The report went on. A town in the southern province of Canton (Guangdong) is now on trend taking baby herbal soup to increase overall health and stamina and the power of sexual performance in particular.
The cost in China currency approximately $ 4000 (it is about Rs2000).
A factory manager was interviewed and he testified that it is effective because he is a frequent customer.
It is a delicacy whereby expensive herbs are added to boil the baby with chicken meat for eight hours of boiling and steaming.
He pointed to his second wife next to him. She is 19 years old. The 62-year-old man testified that they have sex everyday.
After waiting for a couple of weeks he took this reporter to the restaurant when he was informed by restaurant manager that the spare rib soup (local code for baby soup) was now available.
This time it was a couple who have two daughters and this third one was confirmed to be a daughter again. So the couple aborted the baby which was five months old.
Those baby who is close to be born and die naturally costs 2000 in China currency. Those aborted ones cost a few hundreds in China currency.
Those couples who did not want to sell dead babies, placentas can be accepted also for couple of hundreds.
One local reporter was quoted as saying that this is the problem arising from Chinese taking too much attention in health or is the backfire effect when China introduced one child in a family policy.
This heinous crimes rise from the fact that majority of Chinese people prefer to have male babies and the poor families end up selling their female babies.
Dead babies can be purchased in Taiwan for 70 US dollars for being used as grilled delicacies.
Comment:
We weren't sure that this could possibly be real so we ran a Lexis-Nexis database search and discovered a series of similar reports dating back to 1995, which we think the story is from. The BBC broadcast following the UPI report below sounds the more likely explanation.
United Press International, April 12, 1995
Human fetuses are health food to Chinese
Hong-Kong - Human fetuses are gaining popularity as a health food item across the border in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen, a local newspaper reported Wednesday. The Eastern Express reported that its sister publication, Eastweek magazine, conducted an investigation recently and found that fetuses were being eaten for reasons such as improving one's complexion and treating asthma. A Hong Kong-based doctor surnamed Wong, who practices western medicine, scoffed at the myth that fetuses are highly nutritious, saying they contain mucopoly-saccharide , which is beneficial to metabolism, but those nutrients also can be found in a lot of other foods, the report said.
But fetus aficionados in China claimed they are delicacies which can be made into stews or soups, combined with ginger, orange peel and pork. Human embryos are believed to have more health benefits than eating placentas, they said. One mainland doctor said fetuses can be ingredients in meat cakes simply by adding minced meat. But, she warned, more ginger and chives would need to be added to get rid of the smell, a problem many people have with fetuses. The doctor, Zou Qin of the Luo Hu Clinic, explained that ''people normally prefer (fetuses of) young women, and even better, the first baby and a male.''
The specimens can be purchased at Shenzhen hospitals and clinics, which carry out extensive abortion services because of China's birth control policy which limits families to one child in the cities and two in rural areas. Last year, for example, doctors in the People's Hospital -- Shenzhen's biggest -- performed more than 7,000 abortions, the newspaper reported. The going rate for a fetus is about $1.28 (10 Hong Kong dollars), but when the merchandise was in short supply, the prices allegedly could rise to $2.56 (20 Hong Kong dollars), the investigative reporters found. One private clinic charged as much as $38 (300 Hong Kong dollars) per fetus.
Zou defended the delicacy, while other proponents like her tout the embryos as food supplements to strengthen one's body and improve one's kidneys. ''They are wasted if we don't eat them,'' Zou said. ''The women who receive the abortions here don't want the fetuses. Also, the fetuses are already dead (when we eat them). We don't carry out abortions just to eat the fetuses.'' Dr. Margaret Kwan, a gynecologist who until two weeks ago held the post of chief executive of the Hong Kong Family Planning Association, told the newspaper the reports were ''the strangest thing I have ever heard coming out of China. I just hope it is not true."
BBC, May 8, 1995
Shenzhen foetus sale report "distortion" of facts and "sheer fabrication"
Source: Zhongguo Tongxun She news agency, Hong Kong, May 4, 1995
Hong Kong - In response to a recent report by a Hong Kong weekly magazine that "Shenzhen sells foetuses as food" , a relevant person in Shenzhen told reporters of this news agency that the report was inaccurate, and that no one in Shenzhen sells foetuses. The allegation that "some public hospitals in Shenzhen have been selling foetuses as a tonic" , was sheer fabrication, and a distortion of the facts by some Hong Kong people who had resorted to trickery.
The spokesman said that Shenzhen has strict regulations on how to handle abortion extracts. According to investigation, no one in state medical units and community medical organizations has sold foetuses or abortion extracts. Medical organizations throughout the city have assigned specific personnel to burn abortion extracts according to standardized regulations. Regarding the organizations that illegally and privately provide abortion services, once they are discovered, they will be dealt with severely.
According to investigations, in early April, a man and a woman who claimed to be Hong Kong residents, went to the Shenzhen City Maternity and Child-Care Clinic saying that because they have poor health, they wanted to buy foetuses. When a nurse told them that foetuses were not available, they said they wanted abortion extracts. The nurse told them that all abortion extracts have to be treated and could not be kept, adding that she no idea that abortion extracts could be used as health food. The woman insisted that she had poor health and needed them to treat her illness. The next day, the nurse gave them a bottle of abortion extracts, and when they offered the nurse money, the nurse said: "No one wants this thing; you want it, you take it, free of charge." It is not known why the weekly magazine went so far as to write the incident into "selling them as tonic" .
There were photos in the
Seoul Times article appearing to show foetuses being prepared and served as food. Whether real or fake, SOTT will not be including them because the plain fact is, whoever is participating in this is practicing cannibalism. Under the influence of pathological society dominated by pathologized government, religion and academics, little by little practices that were held in check by societal taboos are being normalized so that almost nothing seems shocking or forbidden anymore. When this sort of thing is "normalized" and accepted, civilization is at an end.
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Comment:
We weren't sure that this could possibly be real so we ran a Lexis-Nexis database search and discovered a series of similar reports dating back to 1995, which we think the story is from. The BBC broadcast following the UPI report below sounds the more likely explanation.
United Press International, April 12, 1995
Human fetuses are health food to Chinese BBC, May 8, 1995
Shenzhen foetus sale report "distortion" of facts and "sheer fabrication"
Source: Zhongguo Tongxun She news agency, Hong Kong, May 4, 1995 There were photos in the Seoul Times article appearing to show foetuses being prepared and served as food. Whether real or fake, SOTT will not be including them because the plain fact is, whoever is participating in this is practicing cannibalism. Under the influence of pathological society dominated by pathologized government, religion and academics, little by little practices that were held in check by societal taboos are being normalized so that almost nothing seems shocking or forbidden anymore. When this sort of thing is "normalized" and accepted, civilization is at an end.