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They eat babies in China.

Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I thought it was a racist urban legend too. It’s not. Trust me. The Chinese people that we work with (and our adult students) are very willing to discuss “baby-eating” and are actually the ones that usually bring up the topic because of how funny they think our reactions are.

Here’s why our friends and students think eating babies is a good thing:

-The babies are unwanted by the mother
-The mother (who is commonly single) can make an obscene amount of money. If her baby is alive and healthy, she can get up to 1,000,000 rmb ($144,000 usd). Do you know how much money that is in China?!?! It’s beyond wealthy. BUT, apparently, most babies sell for a small fraction of this price.
-If you eat babies, you won’t get old and wrinkled. And, eating babies makes you have a strong libido.

Here’s the good news: most Chinese people cannot afford to buy live babies to eat. So, they purchase aborted fetuses from hospitals and they settle for just placentas.
Bad news: There are most definitely people that can afford live babies. From what we’ve heard, it’s 100% legal and doctors support the practice because they think it’s good for your body and because the purchaser and mother are supposed to give the doctor a “cut” of the payment. In fact, the way that most babies are sold is that the doctor arranges the whole deal including dropping off the baby to the purchasers.

Apparently it’s best to eat a baby that’s 1-3 days old so it’s a little bigger than a newborn. This means the purchasers keep it alive and feed it for a couple days. Then, it’s very important that the baby be killed by placing it into boiling water. Why? Because APPARENTLY there’s a chemical that is released in bodies of people that are boiled alive that has health benefits for the people consuming the “meat.” So then, that water and baby are used to make “a lot of soup.”

So, obviously, I think this is the most awful thing I’ve ever heard of. So its been really strange being on the other side of of a pro-life argument. Because, that’s exactly what Chinese people think this is about – they think that killing/eating live babies is exactly the same an abortion. I’ve always been 100% pro-choice and I think that waaaaaay more people should be having abortions: BUT not this kind of “abortion!” Anyways, moving on, the good news is that baby eating isn’t too widespread in China. It’s mostly within the Gungdong province and surrounding areas.