Monday, November 23, 2009

Human Fat Trafficking: A Price Worth Paying for Beauty?

Four people were arrested in Peru early this month for trafficking human fat, which could be linked to sixty disappearances. Seven other people were wanted, including two Italians. According to the inspector, the fat was to be sold later to cosmetics laboratories in Europe. Moreover, human fat may cost as much as 10,056 euros (approximately USD15,000) per gallon in European countries.

I also heard from other sources that the group of traffickers typically kill farmers or indigenous people who are fat and live in isolated villages. Then they roast the victims' limbs to extract the fat. Without doubt, this is extremely disgusting and inhumane, I thought the movie "Fight Club" in which people produce soaps with human fat was a little exaggerated, but it does happen in reality. There are indeed people who kill others of their own kind to make a living. I do not know else I can say. This is really really sad.

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