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Paid for 600$-1000$, you can get a baby soup which is 6 month old also. They said this kind of soup is good for health.I think we can safely say that the Chinese as a people do not routinely eat babies or fetuses; nor do Jews, Christians, witches, aborigines or any other groups accused of doing so over the centuries. There’s simply no proof of it. There has never been. What the historical record shows is that the allegation has surfaced time and time again as an ethnic and religious slur.
The claim that baby or fetus eating is an accepted practice in China (or Thailand, or Japan, or Korea, or Israel, as other variants of this same rumor claim) is more or less a modernized version of an ancient legend known as “Blood Libel.” It has typically taken the form of one culture accusing another (or a subculture) of ritually sacrificing infants and in some cases eating them. The Greeks accused the Jews of it, the Romans accused the Christians, Christiansaccused the Jews again, and so on throughout history.Folklorists say the driving forces behind such legends are ignorance, xenophobia (fear of other peoples and creeds) and/or one culture projecting upon another its misgivings about unsettling moral trends at home. One mightspeculate in the present case, for example, that the spread of horror stories in the West about the crass use of fetuses as food in Asia is fueled by qualms about the practice of abortion and the so-called “cannibalization” of fetal tissue for scientific research in our own countries. There are few more emotionally charged issues in modern life.
In any case, it’s hard to tell (and under dispute) whether the horrific photographs circulating via email since December 2000 are real or fake. We do know because we found documentation on them at a site called Chinese-Art.com that they were created by a conceptual artist named Zhu Yu, who exhibited them at an underground art show after they were rejected as too controversial by curators of the Shanghai 2000 Bienniale. In the piece, which he called “EatingPeople,” a serious of photographs indeed appears to show Zhu cooking and eating a human baby or fetus. For those who haven’t seen them and aren’t too squeamish to take a peek, here are two examples from this postmodern masterpiece collected from forwarded emails:
The artist himself, whose past accomplishments include an opus entitled “Canned Human Brains,” has claimed in interviews that he used real aborted fetuses stolen from a medical school to create “Eating People” and that he actually cooked and ate them “for art’s sake.”
It’s true, to the point of being a cliché, as a matter of fact, that avant-garde artists will do anything to shock the public, so we have to acknowledge the possibility that Zhu Yu is telling the truth — that he actually did cook and eat human fetuses. On the other hand, works of “performance art” are often strictly that — performances — and it has been argued that Zhu could have easily constructed his “fetuses” out of doll parts and animal carcasses, pretended to consume them in front of the cameras and made tongue-in-cheek statements to the press to convince everyone the exhibition was real.
That’s a theory I’m inclined to agree with, because, frankly, if Zhu were telling the truth he’d probably be serving jail time. There’s no reason to suppose China is any more tolerant of cannibalism than the rest of the world, and indeed the fact that Zhu’s work was refused for an official exhibition bears that out. Plus, by his own admission, the fetuses Zhu allegedly cooked and ate were obtained illegally.
In early 2001, a Malaysian tabloid published some of the photos along with a story alleging that one Taiwanese restaurant’s signature dish contains meat from human infants. Taiwan government officials demanded an immediate retraction, another indication that baby eating is not particularly well-accepted by the Chinese.

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