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Chinese are cannibals, how do you feel about that?

http://livenews.com.au/news/world/placenta-trade-booming-in-china-despite-government-ban/2009/8/5/215150 Hospitals in China are engaging in a thriving trade in fresh human placentas despite a government ban, state media says. Placentas are seen as a source of nutrition. A recent investigation showed that they sell for up to 250 yuan ($A42.65) each, even though the health ministry prohibited the business more than four years ago, the Global Times reported on Wednesday. "(They) are rich in nutrition and good for human health," said a doctor surnamed Kong who retired in 2006 from the department of gynaecology at a hospital in northeast China's Heilongjiang province. "I have eaten them several times," she said according to the paper. A newspaper reporter at East Asia Economic and Trade News posed as a placenta buyer and found that the Jilin Gynaecology and Obstetrics Hospital in northeast Jilin province was a prolific supplier. After initial negotiations, the reporter received a bloody placenta in a black plastic bag at a pre-arranged meeting in the hospital, according to the Global Times. Some Chinese believe that placentas increase the body's resistance to disease and are especially good for those with frail health, according to the paper. "If the mother is very healthy, the baby was a boy and was her first born, the placenta price increases," an unnamed buyer was quoted as saying.

Public Comments

1. I am now scared of chinese ppl. they eat puppies and kittys too D:
2. It is a bi-product of child birth. No harm comes to the baby as a result of this activity. The thought of doing this is certainly off-putting to western cultures, but theirs is not a western culture. They eat dogs as a normal food, and we view this with disdain. We cannot make assumptions that what we find disgusting is necessarily the same for them. They view many things as having medicinal properties, and this appears to be no exception.