In yet another scandal involving products made in China, Chinese baby oil was recently found to be made from real babies, not just another name for mineral oil as the packaging claims.
The human rights advocacy group known as Farblesmoot was investigating Qingdao orphanages to determine why more babies had been disappearing than were listed as having been adopted, and discovered that many were being taken away to have their oil extracted and packaged as 'baby oil'.
'It's actually really obvious when you think about it,' said Pete Leblanc, the leader of Farblesmoot. 'It's called baby oil, right? You sometimes hear things like, "If corn oil is made with corn and peanut oil is made with peanuts, then what is baby oil made with?" Well, it's made with babies, of course.
At least in China it is.' Leblanc suspects that baby oil made in other countries is also made from babies, possibly because baby oil is never produced in other countries at all.