Chinese Product Secret Ingredient?

[MAJOR_Baker]

Now I  know there have been a lot of stories about the Chinese Century and other stuff but I can hardly wait to see what the so called liberal progressives have to say about this ..... http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1568622,00.html

a Million person march?  Maybe a response from Parrish, those Chinese, I hate those Bastards?  Or maybe a poll on a newspaper asking if people should use such products?  Or the best one, michael moore (the "Fhony" from flint) and Charlton Heston do a remake of Soylent Green....."ITS PEOPLEEEEE!"

 

[Thirstyson]

Maybe they'll say the same thing conservatives have to say about this... That it's sick and imports should be stopped.
Why not offer your own insight?

 

[48Highlander]

don't you be assuming to speak for all conservatives.  what's so sick about it?

 

[wotan]

  I would be very cautious about putting too much faith in anything published in the "Grauniad".

 

[Glorified Ape]

'Cause lord knows, Cons don't have any history of dealing with oppressive regimes when it benefits them. I guess all those people in Central and South America, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Apartheid South Africa, etc. were lying.

 

[buzgo]

This was on BBC World Report too, I heard it last week - IIRC they even interviewed a company rep (Chinese) who didn't think it was such a big deal. They also were using aborted fetuses...

It just reinforces the fact that the Chinese are VERY different from us here in the West.

 

[Britney Spears]

don't you be assuming to speak for all conservatives.  what's so sick about it?

Well, I think the best argument against it, and all forms of prisoner exploitation, is that it creates an economic incentive for the system to make more arrests and approve more executions. That's the theory, anyway. Isn't it for this reason(among others) that we in the west generally shy away from labour camps and chain gangs and such?

Not really a very convincing reason. One would think that there are more than enough cadavers who die from natural causes for the collagen supply, to give much credence to it. I don't imagine there's anything nefarious going on here, just poor doctors in a poor country efficiently utilizing their resources. 

 

[GO!!!]

I agree with Britney - who cares what happens to a prisoners corpse after he's dead? How is this any different than cadavers being given to Medical schools in Canada so that students can poke around in them? After death, a body is just a sack of meat and bone.

 

[48Highlander]

The difference is that those cadavers volunteer themselves before they die

Not that I'm disagreeing with either of you.  I think burrial of corpses is a stupid old superstition, a waste of resources, and a massive waste of space.  If I had it my way, organ donation would be mandatory, and all bodies would be either cremated, or composted.  I don't care wether it violates someones religious beleifs or "personal dignity" or whatever the hell they want to call it - the lives that could be saved by harvesting those organs are a lot more important.

 

[GO!!!]

The difference is that those cadavers volunteer themselves before they die

I'm a strong believer that people who comit heinous crimes have already "volunteered" themselves to society - body and all!

 

[Britney Spears]

Together with the one child policy, the Chinese goverment also actively encourages cremation as opposed to burial for the reasons you state. Deng Xiao Ping himself was cremated as per his wishes upon his death.

 

[TCBF]

Cultural differences.  1.4 billion worker ants versus the tawdry West.  "So what?" they will say "A fetus cries.  By 30 weeks, a fetus can feel pain.  In Canada, you abort 100,000 babies a year, and you question our harvesting of dead skin?"

End of argument.

Tom

 

[S McKee]

The difference is that those cadavers volunteer themselves before they die

Not that I'm disagreeing with either of you.   I think burrial of corpses is a stupid old superstition, a waste of resources, and a massive waste of space.   If I had it my way, organ donation would be mandatory, and all bodies would be either cremated, or composted.   I don't care wether it violates someones religious beleifs or "personal dignity" or whatever the heck they want to call it - the lives that could be saved by harvesting those organs are a lot more important.

I think your a little off the mark. I have no problem with voluntary organ donation, however, we just can't go trampling over people's religious values and beliefs all in the name of expediency. Burial is central to the Christian belief of bodily resurrection.