China Experiments
by Nathan Tabor

Whenever any culture rejects the value of life and begins to rely solely on technology, bad things start to happen. Such is the case in Communist China today, where the authoritarian government has sunk to a new low in its race towards "capitalism."

With a lucrative and growing global market for cosmetics, the Chinese say they are simply following the law of supply and demand model but somewhere along the line they have missed the point. According to a recent LifeSiteNews.com article: “A Chinese manufacturer of injectable collagen for use in cosmetic lip and wrinkle treatments has admitted to a UK news source that the company routinely sources materials from the skin of executed convicts as well as from aborted babies. An agent from the company told a Guardian reporter posing as a prospective client that use of skin from these sources is not unusual in China.”

Chinese “biotech” companies can produce human collagen for about five percent of what it costs to make it in the West, where collagen injections for lip enhancement are becoming increasingly popular in Europe, the United Kingdom and America.

In case you missed the point, they are saying that the Chinese are making skin cream out of dead babies and prisoners, then exporting those polluted products to unsuspecting consumers in the United States and Europe.

The only real objections being raised are about consumer health. The UK Department of Health, for example, worries that “the human-derived collagen, being an injectable product, could be a potential source of contamination with HIV and other blood-borne viruses or even Variant CJD, the human form of Mad Cow Disease.”

Reportedly, last year’s flu shots were contaminated because they were made from aborted fetal celllines. There have been rumors of companies using protein from aborted babies in hair care products. But who would have dreamed of what the Chinese are doing openly and unapologetically?

But someone must be raising the moral issue because the Chinese manufacturers are surprised that doing research on executed prisoners, and then selling their body parts could upset anyone. “In China it is considered very normal and I was very shocked that Western countries can make such a big fuss about this,” said the representative of one collagen manufacturer.

Where is the United Nations when we really need it? Where are the international human rights organizations screaming bloody murder? Where are the PETA animal rights activists, who care more about medical research on monkeys than about the commercial exploitation of dead human beings?

Would we in America condone the use of body parts taken from adults who die from heart attacks or in car accidents unless such people have signed up in advance as organ donors? Without free consent, vital organs can’t even be used to save the life of another person desperately waiting for a transplant. Obviously, babies and prisoners cannot give free consent.

Seventy years ago, the Nazis in Germany put Jews in concentration camps, where they gassed them to death and then made lampshades out of their skins. But we later held the Nazis accountable in war crimes trials for their “crimes against humanity.”

Today we make China our bosom buddy and major trading partner for doing something similar. At least the German customers probably did not know the origin of the lampshades. But it will be difficult for Americans and Europeans today to ignore the fact that to obtain a more youthful look they will have to rub dead people on their faces.

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