Some Chinese people are known to be eating babies, and the news, which has been circulating through the internet and via email, is shocking the world.
An email report received by The Seoul Times confirmed the news with several vivid and appalling pictures of human embryos and fetuses being made into a soup for human consumption.
The report went on. A town in the southern province of Guangdong is now in focus. Chinese folks there are enjoying baby herbal soup to increase overall health and stamina, and the power of sexual performance in particular.
The cost in Chinese currency is approximately Rs 2,000 (which is about US$4,000).
A factory manager was interviewed, and he testified that it is effective because he is a frequent customer.
It is a delicacy whereby expensive herbs are added to boil the baby with chicken meat for eight hours.
He pointed to his second wife next to him. She is 19 years old. The 62-year-old man testified that they have sex every day.
After waiting for a couple of weeks, he took the reporter to the restaurant when he was informed by the restaurant manager that the spare rib soup (local code for baby soup) was now available.
This time, a couple who already have two daughters decided to abort the child after receiving confirmation that it was another girl. The baby was already five months old.
Those babies who are close to being born and die naturally cost 2000 in Chinese currency. Those aborted ones cost a few hundred in Chinese currency.
For those couples who did not want to sell dead babies, placentas could also be accepted for a couple of hundred dollars.
One local reporter was quoted as saying that this is the problem arising from the Chinese taking too much attention to health, or it is the backfire effect when China introduced the one-child-per-family policy.
These heinous crimes stem from the fact that the majority of Chinese people prefer to have male babies, and poor families end up selling their female babies.
A dead baby can be purchased in Taiwan for 70 US dollars to be used as grilled delicacies.