Do They Eat Babies in China?
Dear Urban Legends: I received an email last week which was quite disturbing and, to say the least, disgusting. It is about dead babies that can be bought from hospitals in Taiwan for $70 to meet the high demand for grilled and barbequed babies! I am sure this must be a hoax, although the message comes with an attached slide show, showing how the baby is prepared, cooked and eaten. Could you please investigate? Dear Reader: Given the nature of the “evidence” — that is to say, tabloid-style rumor-mongering and unsourced images found on the Internet — we must proceed under the assumption that the Chinese as a people, whether in Taiwan or on the mainland, are no more inclined to eat human babies than folks who live anywhere else in the world. The same holds true for Jews, Christians, “Gypsies,” witches, aborigines, Satanists, and all the other ethnic and religious groups accused of practicing this bloody “custom” down through the centuries. There’s simply no proof that such a custom exist
