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jose · Sep 13, 2005, 12:25 pm

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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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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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/stor...568622,00.html

PatrickHenry · Sep 13, 2005, 01:16 pm

This story is high in the Yuck Factor.

Think their stuff would sell if it was labeled "Dead Convict Beauty Creme?"

jose · Sep 13, 2005, 03:00 pm

maybe i should think twice before i get them chinese eyes ;-)

Critter · Sep 13, 2005, 03:12 pm

That is just..morbid...and gross...and all kinds of wrong...

*shudders* I'd rather be ugly...

Logjam · Sep 13, 2005, 03:23 pm

The Chinese have been using body parts extracted from executed criminals for decades. You want a kidney; just call your local Red Chinese embassey. Skin cream? What color is it? Do they have plans to cook soilent green?

BTW: If you go to Rawley, Wyoming there's a prison museum there. On display are a pair of shoes made from the tanned hide of a hanged murderer.

Critter · Sep 13, 2005, 03:25 pm

Donated organs is one thing, but skin cream???

PatrickHenry · Sep 13, 2005, 03:26 pm

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the tanned hide of a hanged murderer.

Heh. "Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred!"
http://users.durge.org/~rich/rolf/kangaroo.html

**Pooeypants** · Sep 13, 2005, 04:00 pm

Why waste the remains? There is no logical reason to let it go to waste, we can't exactly farm it from live people can we?

Logjam · Sep 13, 2005, 05:59 pm

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Donated organs is one thing, but skin cream???

It's all the same if you are the guy doing the donating.

G. Adams · Sep 14, 2005, 02:48 am

Who cares? If your getting your collagen from a none human convict source, it's 99% gonna be from a dead cow instead. Wheres the problem? Or maybe it's the convict bit that bothers you. Cells from an innocent cow - good - cells from convict - bad.

Now he's the problem, what if it was an evil cow?!

jose · Sep 14, 2005, 01:42 pm

What´s the difference between using dead peoples organs for transplant, and dead peoples organs for beauty therapy?

PatrickHenry · Sep 14, 2005, 01:58 pm

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What´s the difference between using dead peoples organs for transplant, and dead peoples organs for beauty therapy?

RU joking?

Autolykos · Sep 14, 2005, 03:49 pm

"Soylent Green is people!"

- Rob

Samildanach · Sep 16, 2005, 10:59 am

I know lots of evil cows.

Sep 13, 2005, 12:25 pm	#1 (permalink) (top)
jose Volcanic Erupter Location: España Posts: 2,610	hot lips? snip 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" . 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. http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/stor...568622,00.html

Sep 13, 2005, 01:16 pm	#2 (permalink) (top)
PatrickHenry 9/11: Inside Job Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,446	This story is high in the Yuck Factor. Think their stuff would sell if it was labeled "Dead Convict Beauty Creme?" "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams

Sep 13, 2005, 03:12 pm	#4 (permalink) (top)
Critter Bullets & Bracelets Location: Northwest Ohio Posts: 658	That is just..morbid...and gross...and all kinds of wrong... shudders I'd rather be ugly... Making people go, "WTF?!?!?" since 1979.

Sep 13, 2005, 03:25 pm	#6 (permalink) (top)
Critter Bullets & Bracelets Location: Northwest Ohio Posts: 658	Donated organs is one thing, but skin cream??? Making people go, "WTF?!?!?" since 1979.

Sep 13, 2005, 04:00 pm	#8 (permalink) (top)
Pooeypants Neo Moderator Location: England Posts: 5,609	Why waste the remains? There is no logical reason to let it go to waste, we can't exactly farm it from live people can we? War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is strength Harness the power of Ingsoc, then you can capture someone killed the year before

Sep 13, 2005, 03:00 pm	#3 (permalink) (top)
jose Volcanic Erupter Location: España Posts: 2,610	maybe i should think twice before i get them chinese eyes ;-)

Sep 13, 2005, 03:23 pm	#5 (permalink) (top)
Logjam Hot Lava Posts: 1,153	The Chinese have been using body parts extracted from executed criminals for decades. You want a kidney; just call your local Red Chinese embassey. Skin cream? What color is it? Do they have plans to cook soilent green? BTW: If you go to Rawley, Wyoming there's a prison museum there. On display are a pair of shoes made from the tanned hide of a hanged murderer.

Sep 14, 2005, 02:48 am	#10 (permalink) (top)
G. Adams Fyrdman Location: Middlesbrough UK Posts: 4,161	Who cares? If your getting your collagen from a none human convict source, it's 99% gonna be from a dead cow instead. Wheres the problem? Or maybe it's the convict bit that bothers you. Cells from an innocent cow - good - cells from convict - bad. Now he's the problem, what if it was an evil cow?! Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill

Sep 14, 2005, 01:42 pm	#11 (permalink) (top)
jose Volcanic Erupter Location: España Posts: 2,610	What´s the difference between using dead peoples organs for transplant, and dead peoples organs for beauty therapy?

Sep 14, 2005, 03:49 pm	#13 (permalink) (top)
Autolykos Logical Phallussy Location: In your internets. Posts: 2,991	"Soylent Green is people!" - Rob

Sep 16, 2005, 10:59 am	#14 (permalink) (top)
Samildanach Pragmatist Location: UK London Posts: 1,979	I know lots of evil cows. I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs and insanity for everyone, but its always worked for me. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." (Ernest Hemingway)