We Live in a Sick World!

Updated on May 10, 2012
J.T. asks from East Northport, NY
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I can not believe that I readd this News Article... at first I thought it was a sick joke...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/
south-korea-seizes-capsules-containing-powdered-flesh-dead-190306280.html

FOr all the stupidity that we argue over in this country, I am so glad that we are here and not there...

ETA: I know we have some" icky" thinks allowed here, like a certain amount of bugs etc. are allowable in foods, and certain social policies that are rather devisive. But seriously I am baffled that folks thnk we have thngs here that are in the same league. Plesae be more specific and let me know what you are think of! Thanks!

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This is very odd.
The only solace is that the babies are dead, and I believe that what happens to the shell is not that important--although this example IS irreverent.
What can you expect from a country where the government reigns supreme over the rights of women and their bodies? A-hem!

Did you see the special about the poachers in Africa that hack the horns off of rhinos and leave them to die a slow death?
Google "rhino poaching" of you really want to see images illustrating the power that money has over people, and the lengths they'll go to get it.

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hmmmmm..... And people think that same-sex-marriage is something to get all riled up about and engage in a moral debate on what is "acceptable behavior.

Meet the bigger fish to fry..........

Of course..... this one is a no-brainer in american culture, this is wrong by anyone's standards; left, right, black, white, gay, straight....... this is an issue we can all hate
And so, it is actually a larger issue that won't be as divided.

ugggggh.

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Consider that just next door in North Korea if the government arbitrarily deems you "a threat" they purge three generations of your family. Now THAT makes me glad to live here! Even if I do eat a few bug legs in my chocolate.

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Eh...check out the ingredients in our vaccines and food additives. Lots of reprehensible things in those.

We're not so much better, you know.

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A.C.

answers from Washington DC on

You're just now figuring that out? Sugar it's ALWAYS been a sick world. Welcome to reality.

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I.X.

answers from Los Angeles on

It is disturbing. But least you forget, we sacrifice our babies to the Gods of money, career ladders, and convenience. At least the babies are already dead. But Its all sick.

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M.P.

answers from Minneapolis on

Soylent Green hun, Soylent Green. "My god, its made... <dramatic pause> OUT OF PEOPLE" ummm its just a different way of life. Ok, so my question is, if they are taking dead baby capsules why are they still killing bears for gall bladders, and rhino's for horns? weird.
I dont mean to be flippant but that's not the craziest stuff I have seen. I have friends directly from China, and they make fun of there own culture, saying the Chinese will eat anything that crawls on legs on the ground except vehicles, and anything that swims in the sea, that doesn't require fuel, and anything that flies in the air except planes. Dead baby pills I have to agree is pretty out there in the disgusting category.

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J.P.

answers from Lakeland on

As gross as that is there are things in this country that can be considered just as bad or worse. It all depends on how you look at things.

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I agree with Bug that the ingredients in vaccines are very gross, different animal tissues including human hazardous chemicals. GMO foods are gross too. There were also a few discussions about the milk here in America, they feed all kids of nasty things to the cows including dead cow meat and then we drink that milk. Most sectors of our government are corrupt including CDC, FDA and USDA. Most of the foods we eat all the time are banned in other countries (like all of Europe).

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answers from New York on

ahhhhh!!! Good grief, J., could you have written a little blurb before posting that link? Something like, this will freak you out for the rest of the day? Whoa! ;-)

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Yet another reason to not seek out "news", in any capacity.

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answers from Dallas on

sounds like an episode of Grimm I watched.

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answers from Minneapolis on

I have a hard time believing there are things in this country that are as bad as that....

how disturbing.

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As advanced as China is, they are still backwards on a lot of stuff. Here's some things I learned through experience with my Chinese relatives:
1. Earthworms are used for the coating on capsules. - Hubby has hypertension, so MIL imported hypertension med from China. He broke out in a rash after he took it. She was shocked, because it said it was an herbal medicine in Chinese. The ingredients were listed in English...Ginsing, (known by Auntie is supposed to be used to men...) Donquoi, (known by Auntie is supposed to be used for women only for PMS-lots of men are allergic to it) marigolds, and earthworm for the casing.
2. Just because it says it's herbal medicine, doesn't mean it is. - Once again MIL got some herbal cold tablets for hubby and assured us that it won't react with the Tylenol he took. He wound up in the hospital with extremely high liver enzymes. In Chinese it said, "100% herbal." Guess what? Yep, it was herbal alright. In English it said the ingredients where echinacea and erythromycin.
3. Don't use white streamers on anything! - Son wanted a blue pinata with blue and white streamers on it. MIL ripped the pinata apart and screamed! White means death, but it's ok for a girl to have pink and white streamers.
4.Don't drop anyting! - All I have to do is drop a carrot or spoon on the floor while perparing food and MIL runs for the hills and hubby yells. Still don't know what that means. All I know is that you can't drop something in front of somebody 3 times. I gues it's like baseball.
5. Don't buy a senior citizen a clock or anything that resembles one including a watch. - MIL still blames me for my father's death, because I got him a big school clock that he asked for when he was in the nursing home. That winter he died from conjestive heart failure from a flu that was going around, which killed other senior citizens in that home.
6. Turtle soup has some sort of special power as does bear. Yeah, whatever.

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