But still, yeah: I think the reason people are making so light over it is that it’s such *obvious* crap, such as only the BBC at its most credulous could spread with a straight face.

Seriously. Whenever I make a cup of instant coffee and/or baby, I get damn Americans saying “how can you drink that crap? I only drink it fresh roasted, as soon as it’s been pooped out”.

But these are all people who have never even TASTED it. Seriously people, I bet you couldn’t tell the difference in a blind test. This extra work you’re putting yourself to, grinding and roasting and stuff: you’re just making it hard for yourself.

And then those very same people turn around and offer me instant tea and/or puppy.

Hypocrites.

Allegedly.

It’s not their fault that no one called them on the fact that it was made from real babies. It’s been up front the entire time.

What it says on the tin, people.

PS. WTF!!!!!!

Yeah. It’s scary.

How is babby powdered?

Who are these officials who say the pills contain the flesh of dead babies and fetuses, and how did they determine that? What was the TV documentary that originally made these claims? Who made that documentary, and what evidence did they present for these claims?

I’m not saying it’s impossible. But it’s such an old and well-worn trope to accuse groups you don’t like of killing babies to use their blood/flesh/etc. for food, and it’s been extended to medicine (see various urban legends about aborted fetuses in vaccines, drugs, skin creams, makeup, etc.), that I’m very cautious.

The BBC story links to a China Daily article, which gives more details about the TV documentary and notes that placenta is used in traditional Chinese medicine.

According to that article, the documentary claimed that “the content of the pills received by the television team was 99.7 percent identical with humans” — which is bizarrely nonspecific phrasing, but my guess is they mean that they were able to amplify DNA from the material in the pills and found that it was probably human? That doesn’t rule out placenta at all, though. Placenta pills would be still icky, and biohazardous, but a far cry from “powdered human baby.”