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Swiftfox
04-08-2007, 04:42 PM
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-3-29/53482.html

I hope this is just a sick April fools stunt.

Hong Kong Reports Mainland Chinese Eating Infants
The Next Magazine Mar 29, 2007

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At the The Next Magazine's request, Ms Liu personally escorted the reporter to a location where a fetus was being prepared. The reporter observed a woman chopping up a male fetus and making soup from the placenta. During the process, the woman even tried to comfort everyone by saying, "Don't be afraid, this is just the flesh of a higher animal."

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The following site link is embedded with video that I pray is fake too. Very graphic and disturbing NOT safe for all audiences.

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/04/02/cannibalism-in-china-acceptable-if-for-health/

Tudamorf
04-08-2007, 05:45 PM
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa080601a.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel#Contemporary_blood_libel_myths_in_the_ West

Just another scam perpetrated by xenophobic Christians (know anyone like that, Swiftfox?).

Even if it were true, why would you care? It's just another rotting piece of meat. There's no universal rule that says it's bad to eat it, but good to burn it up or bury it (and let worms and bacteria eat it).

Gunny Burlfoot
04-08-2007, 08:13 PM
There's no universal rule that says it's bad to eat it, but good to burn it up or bury it (and let worms and bacteria eat it).

Research nvCJD, and how it is related to Kuru via the nice indestructible prion.

Eating your own species occurs on occasion, and now, as in the past, and wherever it occurs, a prion disease follows.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/300/5617/227a


They are definitively linked, and how you can think it's a good medical idea to chow down on your own species is completely incomprehensible to me.

Tudamorf
04-08-2007, 09:46 PM
Eating your own species occurs on occasion, and now, as in the past, and wherever it occurs, a prion disease follows.I know; we had a discussion of this in the human sacrifice thread. On the flip side, there's evidence that cannibalism was so widespread (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0410_030410_cannibal.html) in early humanity, we developed certain genetic immunities.

Nevertheless, I fail to see your point. People eat many things that are bad for them, and society has no problem with it. We even encourage people to eat bad things, and set up whole industries to manufacture bad things for people to eat.

It's simply a cultural choice.