Editor's Note: If I had had lunch yet I would have lost it reading this story and viewing the photo documentation.

My wife came home just after I'd read the article sent to me, and seeing the look on my face she asked me, "What's wrong? Did somebody die?

My answer was (pause)“Well, yes.”

This story is not recommended on a full stomach nor close to meal time. The author remains unknown, yet the story remains with the reader.


HEART BREAKING NEWS... Is this a sick hoax by the likes of Zhu Yu? My first thought was along these lines, and I hope it is just that.

This story has apparently been around for awhile according to some readers and a quick search on the net. I may take it down shortly as it makes me ill just to think about it but wait...

Is this reportedly sick piece of artistic journalism not a metaphor for what we as a society are in fact doing? Are we not a cannibalistic society in the name of choice for convenience, fear, our life styles and standards of living? Is this not how sick we should feel about human life being taken day after day after day under the euphemisms of abortion, and a women's reproductive right and freedom?

"Cannibals?!" some might say thinking and speaking literally.

"Cosmetics and beauty products, science and medicine, and vaccination preparation," I would reply.

Don't get me started on the children dying every day for lack of the food which we throw away. More weapons please.

Food for thought!



WARNING SEVERELY DISTURBING Photos at end of article.

And the article in question:

Guangdong Province China
Deplorable news is spreading in China of a new trend of drinking baby girl soup.

Spending around three or four thousand yuan could purchase a seven or eight month-old baby as a soup ingredient. A Taiwanese businessman described the baby soup as a fortifying tonic.

Mr. Wang, a Taiwan businessman in Dongguang, Guangdong province, told the reporter that he is a patron of the baby soup. He said that the baby soup can restore viral energy. According to Mr. Wang if boiled together with Melina officinalis, Codonopsis pilosula, Chinese angelica, Qi Zi, ginger pieces, and chicken sparerib for about eight hours, the baby soup is good for the blood.

Mr. Wang sat hugging his 19 year-old mistress from Hunan province. He continued to say: “I am already 62 years-old, I am still able to have sex every night, and it is all dependant on this [baby soup].” Mr. Wang saw the reporter was looking suspicious, and he volunteered to bring him to taste the soup.

Mr. Wang then brought the reporter to a restaurant in Fusan, Guangdong, where they cook baby soup. After they arrived, the restaurant’s assistant chef told them that: “the ribs” (referring to babies) are hard to find, and that there was none in stock, but there were fresh placentas. Placentas cannot be put in the freezer, and it’s good to eat them fresh.” The chef also told the reporter, if they want eat ‘that’ (the baby), there was a worker couple from outside the province that might be willing to sell their baby. The couple already had two daughters, and the wife was again eight months pregnant. The parents will use salt water to expedite the child’s birth. If the baby is a girl, the parents then will sell the baby to the restaurant for soup.

After a few weeks of researching and interviewing, the reporter heard many more rumors about the baby soup but he never witnessed any. He was doubtful and decided to end his research. Surprisingly, a few days later, Mr. Wang called him again, and said he found a baby. The weather had gotten colder and a few of his friends wanted take some tonic.


Mr. Wang and his friends brought the reporter to a restaurant in Taishan, Guangdong, and met with the chief chef, chef Guao. Chef Guao brought them to the restaurant kitchen to see the baby. The baby was already dead, around five months old, and as tiny as a cat. The Chef also said with apology that a friend of his got the baby from the countryside but did not want to inform the restaurant of the baby’s purchasing price. Instead, the chef told the reporter that a baby’s purchase price is usually around the same figure of the baby’s age. The price also deepens on whether or not the baby was born alive or dead.

Mr. Wang told the reporter that it cost him 3,500 yuan for this soup, and he did not want to care about any other details.


The reporter later found from his chat with Mr. Wang and his friends that the babies were often already dead from miscarriages and abortions. The person who transfers the baby has to give the midwives a few hundred dollars in red envelopes. During the third trimesters, the person who transfers the baby must give the parent two thousand yuan as an adoption fee, regardless of whether the baby is born alive or dead. Even if the babies are alive, they will be killed to be put into the soup. The reporter was invited to taste the soup, but did not have the stomach to drink it, and left the restaurant.