so just when i needed a laugh today, this specimen graces my desktop...
the headline you ask?
Report: Cosmetics firm using remains of executed Chinese
yikes. but the only thing with more pull than a headline like that, is the actual quotes given in the article. gems like;
“A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoners and aborted fetus," the agent was quoted as saying.
proving that not only are the dead not safe, but neither are the unborn unliving either. it just gets me. its morbid. but i laughed for about 10 minutes. its supposed to be the type of article you find on the Onion.com, or something of that ilk. buuuuut it looks somewhat reputable. it just gets me.
i suppose on a somewhat serious note though, its got to be embarrasing for a company in china to get caught doing something like that. here, the largest exporter of cheap shit in the known universe, is seen to be some smiling, curry tainted, tasty food producing place in the middle of nowhere, that really likes american money, and if they werent communists, wed probably like them. then we find out they go picking out corpses to try mascara on. or lipstick. or concealer to cover the bullet holes in the corpse heads. there just isnt any end to it. and you can make some kind of argument that...... errrrr. these are just convicts.... errrrr... they are dead.... errr..... vying market principles sometimes dictate unforseen solutions to evolving business practices... but really it just doesnt make much sense. call me a sterotype-r but, i thougth the asian cultures revered older people... i thought that they worship and made praise to the spirts of their dead relatives. i thought it was a culture that was abit more in tune with the human spirit... with the flow of existence.... hell some of them think reincarnation happens. so then how do we end up with some suit's parading around a mortuary with powderpuff's and lip gloss, in the earnest pursuit of a cheaper earned dollar? i dont get it. i just dont get it.
