# Pill Capsules filled with a very special ingredient. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190 "2012-05-07T16:26:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/1 "2012-05-07T16:26:03Z")
Reminds me of Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies. 😛 There was another horror film about a sausage maker. He’d kidnap these people and put them in the ground alive with just their heads sticking out. I watched way too much horror as a teen. 😉 > **[Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992) ⭐ 5.1 | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106323/)** > > 1h 40m | R Seriously, I’m very thankful for the FDA right now. > [@](#): > > The capsules were made in northeastern China from dead babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, a statement from the Korea Customs Service said. > > Customs officials refused to disclose where the babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. Chinese officials have been cracking down on the production of such capsules since last year. > **[Dead Baby Pills Spark Customs Crackdown in Korea](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/natl-dead-baby-pills-prompt-customs-crackdown-in-korea/1978233/)** > > South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered human flesh and is strengthening customs inspections, officials said Monday. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/2 "2012-05-07T16:34:22Z")
I remember !!! _Motel Hell_. How could I forget Farmer Vincent and Wolfman Jack. 😉 > **[Motel Hell (1980) ⭐ 6.0 | Comedy, Horror, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081184/)** > > 1h 41m | R ---
**Author:** ![Whammo72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Whammo72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo72)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/3 "2012-05-07T16:56:51Z")
“The capsules were all confiscated, but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they weren’t intended for sale, said the customs official, who requested anonymity, citing department rules.” “No sicknesses have been reported from ingesting the capsules.” …really? This is the major concern?? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/4 "2012-05-07T17:07:43Z")
I’m skeptical. I’d like to see something more to confirm the story. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/5 "2012-05-07T17:20:26Z")
The BBC is also reporting the story. And [they quote the Korea Times](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17980177), which reports that an official says that [QUOTE=Korea Times] “It was confirmed those capsules contain materials harmful to the human body, such as super bacteria. We need to take tougher measures to protect public health,” a customs official was quoted as saying by the Korea Times. [/QUOTE] All I can say is, EEEEEWWWWWWWW. Most people have an aversion to cannibalism, but put it into a pill and they’ll take anything. EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/6 "2012-05-07T17:24:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Reminds me of Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies. 😛 Reminds me of [Eating Raoul.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083869/) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/7 "2012-05-07T17:29:16Z")
There’s been a market for exotic drugs for a long time. Rhino horn, testicles of different animals, brains etc. The demand has put several animals on the verge of extinction. Consuming human flesh is very dangerous. Kuru sounds very much like mad cow disease. Plus all the bacteria they mentioned in the news report. Some very dangerous stuff in those capsules. > **[Kuru (disease)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_%28disease%29)** > > Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) caused by the transmission of abnormally folded proteins (prions), which leads to symptoms such as tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. > The term kuru derives from the Fore word kuria or guria ("to shake"), due to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease. Kúru itself... ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/8 "2012-05-07T17:55:28Z")
From the BBC link earlier. Sounds like these people have a sophisticated smuggling operation. I’m glad China is cracking down and stopping this operation. > [@](#): > > Inspections are to be stepped up on shipments of drugs arriving from north-east China, Yonhap news agency reported. > > The Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said that capsules were being dyed or switched into boxes of other drugs in a bid to disguise them. > > Some of the capsules were found in travellers’ luggage and some in the post, customs officials said. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/9 "2012-05-07T18:40:18Z")
What’s the big deal? They made baby powder. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/10 "2012-05-07T18:47:48Z")
More like Sawney Bean. Or Sweeney Todd. Or Mr Brain’s Faggots. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/11 "2012-05-07T18:47:50Z")
and I worried about the dog treat products from China. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/12 "2012-05-07T18:54:16Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > and I worried about the dog treat products from China. Those are made from old people. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/13 "2012-05-07T19:38:14Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > What’s the big deal? > > They made baby powder. Could you scoot over a little? The bench seats in this handbasket aren’t that wide, and it’s your fault I’m in here, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/14 "2012-05-07T19:49:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > He’d kidnap these people and put them in the ground alive with just their heads sticking out. [The Mad Butcher (1971)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067799/) ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/15 "2012-05-07T23:33:17Z")
This is how the zombie apocalypse will start. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/16 "2012-05-08T02:01:41Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > This is how the zombie apocalypse will start. 🙂 I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought this. I mean, among the many things you think when reading about pills made of dead babies. What amazes me is that this is over in the secondary news. Where’s the RO? I haven’t seen a single freak out about it anywhere yet. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/17 "2012-05-08T02:06:52Z")
Soylent Green is … uh… dead babies? From China? Really? Dang. Just when you think you have things figured out they go and change everything on you. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/18 "2012-05-08T02:59:07Z")
Wow, an updated version of How do you get 10 dead babies in a one gallon pitcher? La Machine How do you get them out? Straws :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/19 "2012-05-08T03:24:32Z")
A baby a day keeps the doctor away. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190/20 "2012-05-08T13:53:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Seriously, I’m very thankful for the FDA right now. To be fair I’d be 99% certain this is being sold to customers seeking it out for exotic medicine purposes, its not like they are trying to pass off dead baby as hamburger to unsuspecting buyers or anything. So it would be a bit like being thankful for the DEA busting heroin dealers so you’ll be protected from going and buying some.🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-capsules-filled-with-a-very-special-ingredient/621190.md?page=2)