Cooked Foetus: A Delicacy?

Hey friends, you know I love all of you so much. I have said that so many times and I meant it. The last thing I want to do is make you nice people puke or lose appetite....but I just had to share this !@#$%^&%$# with you. I can't even find a word to describe this!

Ok here goes...My friend emailed this to me:-

A reporter was the writer of the email. It was written in Mandarin, so here's the summary of what I read.

There is a restaurant in GuangZhou, China, which served a tonic soup cooked with foetus!!! They call it "Pai Gu" ('Ribs' in Mandarin).

Normally, the foetus served on the table is usually 6 to 7 months old. It is cooked or rather brewed with many chinese tonics (which I'm not interested to state here cos' I don't know the English names for all those tonics) for 8 long hours.

The soup is believed to boost fertility. A 62 years old man was 'promoting' how incredible the effect of the soup was on his sexual life, that even at this old age, he was able to 'perform' daily!

The soup is 'most beneficial' when its boiled with fresh foetus. They had already been informed by a foreign couple working in China, who are blessed with 2 daughters, that if their 3rd child (in the tummy) is still a girl, after the ultra-scan had confirmed it, then they would sell it to the restaurant. They are hoping for a boy.....

The foetus in the photos (below) was from a village friend of the chef. The price paid for this foetus was not disclosed.

The midwife gets paid for this inhumane act too. The price varies with the age of the foetus. For a 5month old foetus, the midwife is given a few hundred RMB. For foetus carried to Full Term, an award of 2000RMB is given to the parents.

The soup is served for a price of 3500-4000 RMB in the restaurant. Use the Currency Converter to find out how much is that in your own currency. Choose 'Chinese Yuan'

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According to the chef, up to date, only female foetus is available. The guess of the reporter was, "Could it be due to the one-child policy in China, which resulted to this? Chinese being traditional would want to have a son to carry on their family's surname.....so girls are 'not welcomed'...."

Warning!

The following photos are NOT recommended for the weak-hearted to see and definitely NOT for people who have just finished a sumptuous meal.

As I look at the photos. I was thinking: We are no longer in the 'cave-men' age, yet man-eating-man is still happening. I'm not talking about situation where a man is stranded on a mountain after a plane crash and had no choice but ate his fellow (dead) passengers bodies in order to survive. This is NOT about survivor. This is about inhumanity, isn't it?

Eating is one thing. The parents who sold their 'babies' away for that miserable $$$. Do their guilty conscience eat them alive by the minute, day by day?

The 2nd Last photo where the chef used the spoon to scoop up the head was too much for me to handle......My heart feels so heavy now.... Click here to see the photos...(you have been warned)