Can someone please tell me why in asia they are eating aborted fetuses?????????

Answer 1

Are you talking about that "art" collage of photos that was going around a few years ago. I think the whole idea was to make people gag. If that's not it, I never heard of such things practiced in Asia.

Answer 2

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa080601a.htm?terms=fetuses

Do They Eat Babies in China?

I received an email last week which was quite disturbing and, to say the least, disgusting. It is about dead babies that can be bought from hospitals in Taiwan for $70 to meet the high demand for grilled and barbequed babies!

I am sure this must be a hoax, although the message comes with an attached slide show, showing how the baby is prepared, cooked and eaten.

Could you please investigate?

Dear Reader:

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, Christians accused 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 might speculate 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 "Eating People," 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:

Answer 3

You're not serious. Are you? I'm not Asian though I do have a very good friend who was born in Hong Kong and I find this question appalling. It's not enough that we have to constantly wade through the black versus white rubbish.....
Even if there were the remotest chance that there were a shred of truth to what you say "Asia" spans a huge part of the world and encompasses many nations.

Answer 4

It is a rumour, where do people hear these negative things about Asians? What did they ever do to us? Just b/c most countries there are developing and poor and people are starving doesn't mean they don't have consciences or morals or ethnics besides, in fact we should ask ourselves why they are starving when we waste as much if not more food than we eat.

Answer 5

An entire continent of people eating aborted fetuses???

Stop being silly and quit stereotyping.

Answer 6

excuse me miss, not to be rude, but comin from a rural village in asia, i have never heard, seen or myself "ate" an aborted fetus....

we're not as primal as yu think.....

please, comments such as this might insult somebody, so think carefully before yu say anything like this....

good day....

Answer 7

Did you Talk to the "horses mouth" before asking this question? Some one is pulling your leg.

Answer 8

That's just a rumor/myth, that some college aged Yank, started.

Have you ever heard of the saying " Don't believe everything you read & hear".?

Answer 9

What the $^&%$? Where did you hear that? (though you can buy after birth at walmart)

Answer 10

I don't know where you got this information, but it is disgusting and sinful.