Chinese whistleblowers and their opposites

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Dave Bohon | October 1, 2019 | TheNewAmerican.com

China harvests organs of religious and political prisoners

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By akeg/Eric Schmuttenmaer, Wheaton, USACommunist China appears to be continuing its decades-long dark practice of “harvesting” organs from individuals it imprisons for various “crimes.”

The latest charge comes from a group calling itself the China Tribunal, a “coalition of lawyers, academics, ethicists, medical professionals, researchers, and human rights advocates dedicated to ending forced organ harvesting in China,” according to the group’s website.

Appearing before the UN’s so-called Human Rights Council in late September, the group said it has discovered evidence that China continues the gruesome practice of taking organs from political and religious prisoners, despite Beijing’s insistence that it had halted the atrocities several years ago. Read more...

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Michael Cook | August 3, 2019 | Bioedge.org

Creating human-monkey chimeras in China

LATE FLASH! In a stunning example of evading ethical controversy by exporting it, Spanish and American researchers have created monkey-human chimeras in China. The hybrid embryos will be destroyed after they develop a central nervous system and will not be brought to term.

The experiment is ethically risky. What if the human stem cells develop in the monkey brain and become conscious? What if they become sperm or egg cells? Although the researchers, from The Salk Institute, in California, and Murcia Catholic University (UCAM), brush off these fears, they are legitimate and widely-shared.

“We are doing the experiments with monkeys in China because, in principle, they cannot be done here,” Estrella Núñez, of UCAM, told El Pais. “What we want is to make progress for the sake of people who have a disease”. She says that if “if human cells migrate to the brain, they will self-destruct.” Read more.

Composting human remains

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WND Staff | January 1, 2019 | wnd.com

Composting humans? Could be legal in 2019

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Public Domain, LinkDon't want your human remains leaching toxic chemicals into the ground when you die?

Don't want to be cremated because of the impact on global warming?

Don't want to take up space in cemeteries?

Just want to save money on the expense of coffins and burials?

Or, maybe the prospect of “becoming a tree” or having a “different alternative” farewell to the world has you motivated for a new option to the old routine of dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

Washington state residents may be given the opportunity to be "human recomposting" pioneers as early as the 2019 legislative year when the bill is introduced this month…

Washington state residents may be given the opportunity to be "human recomposting" pioneers as early as the 2019 legislative year when the bill is introduced this month… Read more...

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WND Staff | April 21, 2019 | wnd.com

'Soylent Green'? State poised to legalize human composting

Charlton Heston's character in the iconic 1973 movie "Soylent Green" famously didn't take well to the news that the ubiquitous green food reflected in the film's title was composed of human beings.

Now, Washington is poised to be the first American state to test public reaction to turning human beings into compost that could provide nutrients for various food products…

“The founder and CEO of Recompose, she wants her company to be the first ‘natural organic reduction’ funeral home in the U.S. …” Read more.

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Michael Cook | September 22, 2019 | bioedge.org

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

But Katrina Spade, the architect who is the boss of Recompose, says that composting has a much lower carbon footprint than either cremation or conventional burial. “I think one of the things for me,” she says, “in addition to that carbon savings, is just having a way to create usable soil. Something that you can go grow a tree with and have sort of this ritual around that feels meaningful.” Read more.

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...and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind ... the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind ...the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1

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