No doubt a September harvest moon will beam down tonight as the Prime Minister of Canada and an entourage of Right Honourable Members of Parliament host Chinese President Hu Jintao, at an elegant state banquet in Vancouver. Politicians will be decked out in tuxedos, and much of the banquet table will be filled with the bounty of the harvest.
Each fall, the Canadian harvest reaps a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables. In China, they don't depend on seasons to harvest human organs, which are routinely sold to surgeons for transplant into paying foreign patients.
a U.S. Congress Human Rights Commission has heard evidence of the horrifying practice of organ harvesting for profit from executed prisoners. Skin, corneas, kidneys and other human tissues are part of the Chinese harvest.
Executed Chinese political prisoners are skinned for collagen treatments in the country determined to replace the United States of america as the world's next superpower.
The population of some countries is aging and new markets are opening up.
Skin from prisoners executed in China is being used to develop cosmetic collagen treatments aimed at the European market, according to The Guardian.
The newspaper says that agents from a China-based company claim the skin, which is taken from prisoners after they have been shot, is being used to develop the collagen for anti-ageing treatments such as wrinkles and lip-filling injections.
The bee-stung look coveted by Hollywood stars and starlets originates from executed prisoners in China.
While westerners may look upon China's harvest of human tissue with horror, Chinese company reps describe it as "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about".
One reportedly told an undercover researcher: "a lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using the skin from the executed and aborted foetus."
He claimed that the material was bought from large bio-tech firms in China's northern province of Heilongiang. When questioned on the record, however, the company denied that it uses skin from executed prisoners.
amnesty International estimates that around 3,400 people were executed in China last year, and that some 6,000 more are on death row.
The United Kingdom Government has yet to rule on whether collagen falls under medicine or cosmetic products, so anyone taking collagen injections is using a product that is unregulated.
and that doesn't cover the risk of infection from collagen injections. It is now known that blood-borne viruses can be passed on from collagen made from human tissue.
Regulation bodies are leaving it for the European Union to sort out whether collagen should be regulated. Health care workers argue that laws should be drawn up now and not be put on hold for several years from now.
President Hu Jintao, who glibly told reporters that Canada's views were different from China on human rights because both countries have different histories and cultures, has been just as casual about his country's appalling record on human rights.
While westerners recoil in horror about the prospect of harvesting human organs for profit, Chinese authorities contend that organs harvested from the bodies of executed prisoners are only taken with the consent of the prisoner and his or her family.
Prisoners facing the executioner's pistol granting permission to leave their skin for harvesting so that others can have lip-filling injections?
That's the mental attitude of the country whose leader is being feted tonight by Prime Minister Paul Martin, courtesy of Canadian tax dollars.
Meanwhile, champagne flutes will be clinking in a toast to the health of the Chinese President and Canadian politicians will be asking fellow dinner guests to pass along the Hollandaise sauce for the lip-smacking salmon
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