What in the hell?

**SiggyZ** · 05-07-2012, 09:28 AM

South Korea finds smuggled capsules containing human flesh
Published May 07, 2012 Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea – Add this twist to the scourges of human trafficking and flesh peddling: Pills sold as Viagara-style performance enhancers that contain the powdered tissue of aborted fetuses and dead infants.

South Korea has seized nearly 17,500 of the bizarre capsules from tourists' luggage and international mail since last August, according to the state-run Korea Customs service said in a statement Monday. The capsules were made in northeastern China in a stomach-turning process in which dead babies' bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.

The pills, which are typically smuggled in by ethnic Koreans living in northern China, aren't just creepy, the contain "super bacteria" that is hazardous to human health, the statement said. South Korea began cracking down on the drugs last year after a television network aired a documentary accusing Chinese pharmaceutical companies of collaborating with abortion clinics to make the pills from human fetuses and the remains of dead infants, accordiong to The Wall Street Journal.

In parts of China, consumption of human placentas is believed to help revive blood supply and circulation, according to the China Daily report. In addition, many believe the fetus is a "tonic" for disease has kept the pills in demand, according to the China Daily, which reported Beijing has been investigating the matter as well. But the latest use of fetal tissue is as a sexual performance enhancer, according to a report in the Global Times, a tabloid published by the official People’s Daily.

The Korean customs announcement comes less than a month after China’s drug regulators announced the suspension of sales of 13 drugs (11 Chinese traditional medicines and two antibiotics) after finding they were encased in gelatin capsules that contained excessive levels of chromium. According to China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, the toxic drug capsules were believed to originate from factories in China’s coastal Zhejiang province and had been made using scraps of leftover leather.

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**Schmalgar** · 05-07-2012, 09:37 AM

I am sorry, but there may be some truth in traditional oriental medicines, but in general the traditional demands are just the leading cause of poaching and animal extinction, as they believe everything exotic is good for curing impotence. Rhino horn, tiger bone, etc, all good for impotence, so those animals are slaughtered so they can have better sex, in theory. The demand of traditional medicines based off animals if far outreaching the supply now that there are a billion Chinese in particular, and growing... There needs to be a cultural shift at some point, or all these animals will be wiped out in the name of erections...

Add this to it, and wow, they really need to come into the 21st century a little bit... I mean, is there REALLY such a problem getting erections in south Asia that they need these kinds of 'medicines'...? Or, I suppose, the fact that a fourth of the world's population is in south Asia could be proof that these things work too well? Either way, my goodness, stop it already...