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September 13, 2005
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A Chinese Question of Face
Shocking, gory story in today's Guardian newspaper. A Chinese cosmetics company takes the skin and collagen from executed prisoners and sells it to beauty companies in Europe. And the collagen from the prisoners, executed by gunshot, is transported via Hong Kong. A quote from that company's representatives: 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.I know we live in a relativistic world, but can we, just once, have a sign of some universal standards? Sickening. posted by HK Dave on 09.13.05 at 11:46 PM in the
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