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A police officer in Lima shows off bottles of human fat that were allegedly found on gang members who confessed to murdering local peasants to harvest fat
Peruvian gang 'killed peasant farmers for their fat'
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...but somehow, that doesn't share the satanic special awesomeness of having it extracted from murder victims, a la Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory in 1600s (albeit in her case, it was blood of maidens).
You've raised a good points about organs being valuable, however, the problem with organs is that you have to preserve them in a good enough condition for transplant, you need a ready doctor to perform the surgery, and a ready patient, both that, however desperate, have to have some trust that the organ you've deliver is clean and/or viable.
Human fat is easier to keep and transport than human organs, less chances of getting caught.
...but on the subject of easy, why didn't the gang take a tip from the hunter in Snow White, and just use pork fat? Or lamb fat, I use lamb fat, or rather, lamb grease, wool grease, the type that lambs secrete from their skin, onto wool, and is separated from wool during wool processing. Great on cracked skin, I heard from nursing mothers that it works on cracked nipples too.
I really do not care whether anybody thinks they're more attractive by slapping shit on their faces.
Humans are attracted to others by something else entirely that can't be enhanced by artificial means.
The cosmetics industry like the diamond industry is based on a scam, a fraud and the stupid human falls for it because of vanity and nothing more complicated than stupidity and ego centricity and competitiveness through massive insecurity.
As for these pigs manifested as humans in Peru: who needs these low forms of life?
Kill them.
I use olive oil in the summer, it's best rubbed in, you can use it after or during a hot bath, it's great but it's a great hassle. With Lanolin, it's just wonderful in winter, and you just slather it on.
Well, I think the IMAGE that cosmetic industry sell, the message that woman can't even sleep without makeup (or do I blame hollywood for that?), is a sham, but facial care and body care products, does do something, if it's something as simple as keeping your skin hydrated without blocking the pores. It's not just beauty, it's health because your skin is your largest organ
...but dude, killing ppl ain't right, and the human fat thing is so very gross and probably doesn't work or can be easily replaced. This whole thing is just a whole huge roll of WTF BBQ.
Though from some of the more recent headlines, it look like they only had about five victims so far, so it's probably just one rich sicko or two who's paying them for this (like, if they are killing farmers, there probably isn't much fat on one...and again, yee gods, why not a liposuction surgeon?)
Can humans go any lower down the morality slope?
I like to always remind myself that, however gruesome, these things are just super-small fries compared to what our possibly elected representatives regularly unleash under all sort of self-serving justifications and in full _connaissance de cause_