L’OREAL IS PEOPLE
Hm this is sort of disturbing.
A British newspaper said that a Chinese cosmetics company was using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe.
Agents for the firm, which could not be named for legal reasons, have told would-be customers that skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot is being used to develop collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments, the Guardian newspaper said following an undercover investigation.
“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’,” the daily alleged.
Well hey I guess it isn’t a big deal then. I suppose I was being culturally insensitive there for a second. Now I see that rendering dead bodies into cosmetic products is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Just as reasonable as shooting prisoners, perhaps.