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13. Sep 2005

Rationel udnyttelse

 
I Kina laver de kosmetik og cremer af hud fra henrettede forbrydere, ser man i The Guardian. Måske man også kan genbruge deres organer, og ville det mon være et godt argument for også at indføre dødsstraf her i landet? Så kunne man endda have to niveauer for strafudmåling: ét for arbejdsløse, bistandsmodtagere og andet ros (hvis hud og organer man har et godt øje til) og ét for ordentlige mennesker, der passer deres arbejde og som vi alligevel alle sammen godt kan forstå, hvis de går over stregen (på samme måde som man i visse lande har "gode" fængsler for over- og middelklasse og "grimme" fængsler for almindelige mennesker)?

Men lad os nu høre, hvad de kinesiske firmaer rent faktisk selv siger:
A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.

Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about".
Hyggeligt. En af firmaets repræsentanter sætter en journalist, der udgiver sig for forretningsmand, ind i den lokale baggrund og praksis:
"A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoner and aborted foetus." This material, he said, was being bought from "bio tech" companies based in the northern province of Heilongjiang, and was being developed elsewhere in China.

He suggested that the use of skin and other tissues harvested from executed prisoners was not uncommon. "In China it is considered very normal and I was very shocked that western countries can make such a big fuss about this,"
På længere sigt kan han vel spare sig sine bekymring: Folk vil utvivlsomt gerne bruge det, hvis de blot kan slippe for at få noget at vide om, hvor (og især hvem) ingredienserne kom fra...

Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.

(Via Bertram Online).

Update, 14/9 kl. 08.37:
Politiken har nu også historien - Matas vil undersøge, om der skulle være henrettede kinesere i deres eget sortiment.

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