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Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea
More than 17,000 pills smuggled into country have been intercepted since last August
Pills viewed as a 'miracle cure' for all ailments - but unsurprisingly they are harmful
By Richard Shears and Rob Cooper
PUBLISHED: 05:44 EST, 7 May 2012 | UPDATED: 13:50 EST, 7 May 2012
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Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today.
The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal 'cure-all'.
The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born.
Dead baby pills: This is ground baby powder which tests discovered is 99.7 per cent human last year. South Korean officials have stopped 17,000 dead baby pills being imported since last August
Dead baby pills: This is ground baby powder which tests discovered is 99.7 per cent human last year. South Korean officials have stopped 17,000 dead baby pills being imported since last August
The tiny corpses are then bought, stored in household refrigerators in homes of those involved in the trade before they are removed and taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves.
Once the skin is tinder dry, it is pummelled into powder and then processed into capsules along with herbs to disguise the true ingredients from health investigators and customs officers.
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The discoveries since last August has shocked even hardened customs agents who have pledged to strengthen inspections.
Chinese officials are understood to have been aware of the trade and have tried to stop the capsules being exported but thousands of packets of them have been smuggled through to South Korea.
Danger: The Chinese Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into the alleged production of pills made from dead babies
Danger: The Chinese Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into the alleged production of pills made from dead babies
There is a huge demand for alternative Chinese remedies - which include ground up rhino horns.
The Chinese have historically consumed human placentas to improve blood supply and circulation.
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Many of the remedies are more than 2,000 years old - and claim to be alternative methods for curing disease.
The use of rhino horns in Chinese medicines has been widely criticised.
Despite the claims the 'cures' can treat everything from broken bones to headaches, there is limited proof they actually work.
A team of Australian scientists discovered that some of the medicines contained traces of black bears and antelope.
The Murdoch University team used DNA sequencing to work out what the plants and animal ingredients are.
Health authorities in Asia are concerned that if the powdered foetus trade is allowed to continue the capsules will find their way onto the internet and be sold to gullible or sick desperate people in other parts of the world.
The South Korean Customs Service said today that it had heightened its searches of suspicious packages being brought into the country by travellers from China in an attempt to stamp out the sickening trade.
According to customs agents, 35 smuggling attempts have been made since August last year involving more than 17,000 capsules disguised as 'stamina boosters'.
Hospitals and abortion clinics in China reportedly pass the remains onto drugs companies when a baby is stillborn or aborted, the South Korean SBS documentary team reported last year.
The San Francisco Times reported that tests carried out on the pills confirmed they were made up of 99.7 per cent human remains.
The tests were successfully able to establish the genders of the babies used.
There is a huge demand for the pills which are thought to enhance stamina. Microwave-dried placenta is also sought after for its alleged 'medicinal' benefits.
However, in reality the human flesh capsules contain super-bacteria and other harmful ingredients.
A number of smugglers who have been detained by the South Korean authorities have claimed they did not know what the ingredients were or the manufacturing process behind them.
Crackdown: Chinese officials, pictured confiscating thousands of illegal tablets, say they will clampdown on the massive herbal medicine industry which has seen dangerous bacteria an human remains added to seized pills
Crackdown: Chinese officials, pictured confiscating thousands of illegal tablets, say they will clampdown on the massive herbal medicine industry which has seen dangerous bacteria an human remains added to seized pills
'Ethnic Koreans from north-east China who now live in South Korea are those who were mostly intending to use the capsules or share them with other Korean-Chinese' said a customs official.
'They are normally brought into South Korea in luggage or posted by international mail.'
The capsules were all confiscated but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they were not intended for sale, a customs official added.
Chinese newspapers have identified the north eastern provinces as the source of the human flesh capsules, in particular the Jilin region which is close to North Korea.
Smuggling: More than 17,000 capsules disguised as 'stamina boosters' have been intercepted as they were smuggled into South Korea last year (pictured is Seoul airport)
Smuggling: More than 17,000 capsules disguised as 'stamina boosters' have been intercepted as they were smuggled into South Korea last year (file photo of Seoul airport)
There have been disturbing reports that some babies were those who had perished in China's notorious 'dying rooms' where youngsters are deliberately left to die because they were born into families that already had the limit of one child in country areas.
In order to keep its population down, China performs 13 million abortions a year - mainly because mothers sacrifice their newborns to avoid punishment such as severe fines or even a beating by the authorities.
The Chinese authorities have confirmed that 38 per cent of women of child-bearing age have been sterilised - but the babies that are aborted do not go to waste because of the sickening trade in using their corpses for purported medicinal purposes.
Despite their disgust at discovering packets of the so-called rejuvenation pills being brought in from China, South Korean officials have refused to confirm where the babies came from or who made the capsules.
Sources said this was because they were not prepared to create diplomatic friction with Beijing, preferring to leave it to Chinese officials to do something about the horrific trade in powdered babies.
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Does it suprise me? Oriental people are fucked up. Have you ever seen no reservations with anthony bordaine? when hes in SE Asia?
whats for dinner? AWFUL.
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As repulsive at this sounds to our culture
A) They are not Judeo-Christians.
B) The babies were most likely not killed for this purpose.
C) If you're an atheist then what happens to a body after death shouldn't mean much to you.
And yes, at first I was horrified.
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I'm still horrified.
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My reaction was a brief :eyebrow: before I resumed browsing.
I suppose I've gotten really jaded.
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Japanese girls are the only orientals I wanna reproduce with. Also, when i went to chinatown in SF they had skinned cats on shishcobobbs for your dinning pleasure Of course thats when I whipped out a good ol' bag of M&Ms and closed my eyes to prevent myself from puking, also I acted like I had to go to the bathroom but really went back to the car to sit. :laugh:
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What really bothers me is that I'm not shocked or appalled at all.
My reaction was a brief :eyebrow: before I resumed browsing.
I suppose I've gotten really jaded.
:agreed:
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As repulsive at this sounds to our culture
A) They are not Judeo-Christians.
B) The babies were most likely not killed for this purpose.
C) If you're an atheist then what happens to a body after death shouldn't mean much to you.
And yes, at first I was horrified.
I am atheist and I still find cannibalism repulsive.
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As repulsive at this sounds to our culture
A) They are not Judeo-Christians.
B) The babies were most likely not killed for this purpose.
C) If you're an atheist then what happens to a body after death shouldn't mean much to you.
And yes, at first I was horrified.
I am atheist and I still find cannibalism repulsive.
Oh what about self cannibalism? I do eat the skin on my feet...quiet yum... :include:
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I do have different ideas on how to deal with human remains.
But, grounding aborted babies into pills, or using embryos for stem cell harvesting, where's the ethical difference?
The thought that in China abortions sometimes happen just a few weeks before the baby is due makes it more icky.
But, I'm much like EBM here,
What really bothers me is that I'm not shocked or appalled at all.
My reaction was a brief :eyebrow: before I resumed browsing.
I suppose I've gotten really jaded.
:agreed:
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The only thing I find surprising is the level of the quality control on what they tested, 99.7 per cent human, normally their QC sucks.
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The only thing I find surprising is the level of the quality control on what they tested, 99.7 per cent human, normally their QC sucks.
:lol1:
You are on a roll today.
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The only thing I find surprising is the level of the quality control on what they tested, 99.7 per cent human, normally their QC sucks.
:lol1:
You are on a roll today.
He really is! It's the wisdom that comes with AGE. :zoinks:
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The only thing I find surprising is the level of the quality control on what they tested, 99.7 per cent human, normally their QC sucks.
:lol1:
You are on a roll today.
He really is! It's the wisdom that comes with AGE. :zoinks:
And, yet, he is still so young.
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I think it was extra-disturbing to me because they're using powdered dead babies as, if I am understanding this correctly, viagra.
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The dying rooms, that, I do find horrible.
But, somehow, the use of human flesh, after death, does not do a thing to me.
Told my kids, that I would not mind being eaten or anything, after I die. But, being slaughtered, or left to die, with the aim to make use of my remains, is something completely different.
But, once I am dead, and someone wants to buy the remains to make viagra out of me, let them do it. Especially if my kids benefit from the income. :P
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I do have different ideas on how to deal with human remains.
But, grounding aborted babies into pills, or using embryos for stem cell harvesting, where's the ethical difference?
The thought that in China abortions sometimes happen just a few weeks before the baby is due makes it more icky.
It makes sense to abort as late as possible when foetus is priced by the kilo.
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The dying rooms, that, I do find horrible.
But, somehow, the use of human flesh, after death, does not do a thing to me.
Told my kids, that I would not mind being eaten or anything, after I die. But, being slaughtered, or left to die, with the aim to make use of my remains, is something completely different.
But, once I am dead, and someone wants to buy the remains to make viagra out of me, let them do it. Especially if my kids benefit from the income. :P
I'll wait until it's the apocalypse and my only other option is to starve before chowing down on someone. I wonder if there's going to be an outbreak of prion diseases in China and South Korea in 10-20 years that'll be traced back to foetus pills. Foetuses are probably safer than adult humans when it comes to prions, since there's less time for prions to accumulate in the nervous system, but I'll bet foetus-brains make up a pretty large percentage of the dry weight of the pills.
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What really bothers me is that I'm not shocked or appalled at all.
My reaction was a brief :eyebrow: before I resumed browsing.
I suppose I've gotten really jaded.
:agreed:
Yeah, I'm kinda disturbed by how unperturbed I am by this.
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As repulsive at this sounds to our culture
A) They are not Judeo-Christians.
What does that matter?
C) If you're an atheist then what happens to a body after death shouldn't mean much to you.
Absolute bullshit
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I wonder if the pills work. :P
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Don't they know it works better in a tea bag than in a pill? Added bonus of all that dead baby flavor.
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Told my kids, that I would not mind being eaten or anything, after I die.
I want to be fed to my dogs.
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I wonder if the pills work. :P
You could start a proper double-blind study to find out. :P
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I wonder if the pills work. :P
You could start a proper double-blind study to find out. :P
All in the name of science. :P
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Hey PMSElle, look on the bright side, they are only grinding them up and using them for viagra, and not fucking them in the arse :P
As for prion diseases, that is a very valid concern. And with prions, the nasty thing about them is that it, in theory, only takes a tiny amount of the 'organism' that causes for instance, CJD, VCJD or kuru (the latter of which IS known to be transmitted by eating people), the prion protein is normally present in the brain, and the infectious 'organism' (I use that term to describe prions out of convenience) acts autocatalytically to change the conformation of the native protein to more of the mutated, toxic prion.
They are more of a poison, than an infection, not being alive, like bacteria, viruses, viroids, amoeba and the like, although they (disease-causing prions are nevertheless, infectious, and HIGHLY resistant to decontamination by most normal means, autoclaving, antiseptics, antibiotics. Difficult to kill something that was never alive to begin with, and they are unusually resistant to denaturation by heat, compared to most proteins)
Once a prion infection takes hold, then the toxic form spontaneously induces the native, healthy form to convert to further variant prion protein, increasing exponentially.