Friday, November 20, 2009

Living off the fat of the land

Never let it be said that Walt pours out his vitriol on Africans and Asians to the exclusion of other members of the damned species. Bizarre and revolting behaviour is to be found everywhere, and you can count on me to pass on stories guaranteed to make you retch.

BBC News has such a story today. Click here to read how police in Peru have broken up a gang who allegedly murdered peasants to harvest their fat. Yes, you read that right. The fat was then used to make cosmetics.

Victims were lured to a house which locals called the "laboratory", where they were told they could find work. Once there, they were killed, their fat was boiled down and what remained of them was buried in shallow graves. Talk about extraordinary rendering...

According to the BBC story, the break in the case came when a pair of men was caught at a Lima bus station carrying a litre of human fat in a pop bottle. The report does not say how police knew the fat was human.

On the BBC website you'll find a video which, I warn you, contains disturbing images. The report on the Peru fat merchants comes after that.

Footnote: Don't accuse me of picking on Hispanics and ignoring the malfeasance of whites. The fat manufacturers to whom the fat was sold are said to be...wait for it...in Italy. So where do your cosmetics come from?

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