The capsules containing the powdered flesh were found both in luggage and in the post South Korea says it will increase customs inspections targeting capsules containing powdered human flesh.
The Korea Customs Service said it had found almost 17,500 of the capsules being smuggled into the country from China since August 2011.
The powdered flesh, which officials said came from dead babies and foetuses, is reportedly thought by some to cure disease and boost stamina.
But officials said the capsules were full of bacteria and a health risk.
"It was confirmed those capsules contain materials harmful to the human body, such as super bacteria. We need to take tougher measures to protect public health," a customs official was quoted as saying by the Korea Times.
Inspections are to be stepped up on shipments of drugs arriving from north-east China, Yonhap news agency reported.
The Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said that capsules were being dyed or switched into boxes of other drugs in a bid to disguise them.
Some of the capsules were found in travellers' luggage and some in the post, customs officials said.
Allegations that human flesh capsules were being trafficked from north-east China into South Korea emerged last year in a South Korean television documentary.
At the time China's Health Ministry said it was investigating the claims raised by the programme.
Ministry spokesman Deng Haihua, quoted at the time in China Daily, said China had "strict management of disposal of infant and foetal remains as well as placentas".
"Any practice that handles the remains as medical waste is strictly prohibited," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
1) so what do you think of this? 2) will humankind ever stop practicing humbug shaman rituals like this? 3) would you? or how would you react if you just found out that your vitamin pills are actually made of humans
discuss.
inb4: please no 'I WILL EAT YOUR BABIES' or 'supplement green' jokes. or at least keep them tastefull (no pun intended)
'Keep them tastefull'. heheheh. ah... I am so easily amused :(.
Ah well. My faith in the continued ridiculousness and superstitious nature of my fellow man is renewed. cynicism is such a lovely thing.
For some reason I'm not really surprised at this. I've seen so many articles and heard so many crazy people and ideas that are accepted in society for some reason instead of branded as loony that I don't feel much when I hear of these insane things still happening in the world.
We're such a confusing species. Why can't we just ditch the religion/folklore/practices of eating powdered human flesh to cure disease and try to live with LOGIC and empathy?
The only reasons I can think of involve 'yo mamma' jokes and Cthulhu so I'll keep quite on this one.
But officials said the capsules were full of bacteria and a health risk.
Its fine, eventually the people who believe in this kid of thing will kill themselves and we'll be left in peace. Hopefully. At least, thats what I keep telling myself, every time something like this comes up.
Anyway ""It was confirmed those capsules contain materials harmful to the human body, such as super bacteria." I'm assuming I'm not the only one getting the image of some bacteria in like a cape or with super strength or something along those lines. And will Dettol be able to get rid of it? :O
TheBobmus: NO. What the actual fuck, Asia. Placenta I can understand, but powdered foetus/dead baby? That's just plain sickening. Also what are 'super bacteria'? That's a new one for me...
Super bacteria are bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics and are extremely hard to kill.
TheBobmus: NO. What the actual fuck, Asia. Placenta I can understand, but powdered foetus/dead baby? That's just plain sickening. Also what are 'super bacteria'? That's a new one for me...
Super bacteria are bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics and are extremely hard to kill.
Oh I see, like an MDR bacteria. What an amusingly hyperbolic name.
TheBobmus: NO. What the actual fuck, Asia. Placenta I can understand, but powdered foetus/dead baby? That's just plain sickening. Also what are 'super bacteria'? That's a new one for me...
Super bacteria are bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics and are extremely hard to kill.
Oh I see, like an MDR bacteria. What an amusingly hyperbolic name.
you know the world we live in. Everything's sensationalized.
The fuck? I might not be able to take a pill for a week..... Why the hell would people buy powdered baby?!!? it just makes absolutely no sense! Aren't there other, legal things that they can take to increase stamina?
TheBobmus: NO. What the actual fuck, Asia. Placenta I can understand, but powdered foetus/dead baby? That's just plain sickening. Also what are 'super bacteria'? That's a new one for me...
Super bacteria are bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics and are extremely hard to kill.
Oh I see, like an MDR bacteria. What an amusingly hyperbolic name.
1) WTF? Inb4 Soylent Green jokes. 2) Nope. Afterall some people out there still believe a woman is a witch (was mention on here ages ago). 3) I would visit my GP or to a reliable place for my health after ingesting those pills. That is once I stop panicking about it.
Oh I see, like an MDR bacteria. What an amusingly hyperbolic name.
They have an asymptote at |1| ?
Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria - it's what I know them as (BioSciences student), so had to Google to see if they were the same thing.
Sorry, I was trying to use humour to disguise my grammar nazi-ing. Hyperbolic doesn't mean full of hyperbole, it describes a type of arc, like elliptical or parabolic. The graph of y=k/x for example, is a rectangular hyperbola.
Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria - it's what I know them as (BioSciences student), so had to Google to see if they were the same thing.
Sorry, I was trying to use humour to disguise my grammar nazi-ing. Hyperbolic doesn't mean full of hyperbole, it describes a type of arc, like elliptical or parabolic. The graph of y=k/x for example, is a rectangular hyperbola.
Uh, hyperbolic does mean that, I think you'll find. It means both. But yeah, the joke makes sense now I know you were referencing that word. I guess A Level maths sunk in deeper than I thought...
Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria - it's what I know them as (BioSciences student), so had to Google to see if they were the same thing.
Sorry, I was trying to use humour to disguise my grammar nazi-ing. Hyperbolic doesn't mean full of hyperbole, it describes a type of arc, like elliptical or parabolic. The graph of y=k/x for example, is a rectangular hyperbola.
Uh, hyperbolic does mean that, I think you'll find. It means both. But yeah, the joke makes sense now I know you were referencing that word. I guess A Level maths sunk in deeper than I thought...
?! *google google google* Curses. My bad, as you were. I'm just going to pretend that it was a harmless pun all along. *whistles*
Sorry, I was trying to use humour to disguise my grammar nazi-ing. Hyperbolic doesn't mean full of hyperbole, it describes a type of arc, like elliptical or parabolic. The graph of y=k/x for example, is a rectangular hyperbola.
Uh, hyperbolic does mean that, I think you'll find. It means both. But yeah, the joke makes sense now I know you were referencing that word. I guess A Level maths sunk in deeper than I thought...
?! *google google google* Curses. My bad, as you were. I'm just going to pretend that it was a harmless pun all along. *whistles*
No worries, you just tried to out-Nazi Hitler, as it were... Except I'm more slightly more love-able
Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria - it's what I know them as (BioSciences student), so had to Google to see if they were the same thing.
Sorry, I was trying to use humour to disguise my grammar nazi-ing. Hyperbolic doesn't mean full of hyperbole, it describes a type of arc, like elliptical or parabolic. The graph of y=k/x for example, is a rectangular hyperbola.
Well in Sweden it read just powdered babies .... I was really shocked by that ...
1. Bad idea Mad cow disease come from cannibalism ... 2. No if there is money in it they will keep on doing it. 3. First of all I would report it to authorities, then I donīt know ...
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1. I think this is goddamn disgusting, but not surprising. There is far worse 2.No, It will never end, there's always someone crazy, rich and desperate enough to try this shit. 3.Pill spit take
"The earliest known instance of the highly infectious viral super cell later known as The Flood form to be encountered came in a fine desiccated powder, contained in cylinders."
What do I think about this? I think we're on track for the future as described in Warhammer 40.000. Xenophobia is still rampant across the globe (despite its widespread denial), we're still developing countless new ways of blowing up one another, and now it appears we're looking at the prototype to the 41st millennium's ever-so-popular corpse starch rations.
Fuck that, let them eat them! Let them scoff them down like an ant eater munches on ants! Just rename them to Darwin pills 'cos lets be honest if you believe that eating the powered flesh of dead babies will cure diseases and boost stamina you need to be removed from the gene pool ....
It's like all these drug addicts, just let them go nuts on the stuff, the sooner they OD the better.
I have no sympathy for self induced health problems, don't get drunk to the point of passing out then complain that you're hungover!
1) so what do you think of this? 2) will humankind ever stop practicing humbug shaman rituals like this? 3) would you? or how would you react if you just found out that your vitamin pills are actually made of humans
1)Saw this on the beeb, it's fucking horrible - yet another reason to dislike Chinese 'traditional medicine'.
2)I'd say yes, but I think it'll take a while, as in hundreds of years before such belief is eradicated
3)I'd fucking kill the person that gave them to me. And if I didn't feel like going to prison? I'd probably call the police and have it taken from there.
South Korea 'to target powdered human flesh capsules
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-korea-cracks-smuggling-human-flesh-capsules-article-1.1073628?localLinksEnabled=false
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17980177
1) so what do you think of this?
2) will humankind ever stop practicing humbug shaman rituals like this?
3) would you? or how would you react if you just found out that your vitamin pills are actually made of humans
discuss.
inb4: please no 'I WILL EAT YOUR BABIES' or 'supplement green' jokes.
or at least keep them tastefull (no pun intended)