Monday, 8 July 2013

China's new millionaires on a breast-milk binge


Breast milk drinking by rich adults provokes outrage in China
 
BEIJING: Rich adults in south China's Shenzhen city hiring wet nurses to drink breast milk has provoked
disgust and outrage over the Chinese internet with thousands of micro blog users lashing out at this "latest game" of people who came to wealth overnight. The wet nurses are provided by an agency, which scouts for poor women who have recently given birth and would be happy with some financial support. The new mothers offer their services for a few days to weeks in a month with prices varying from $2,000 to $4,000. 
 
"This adds to China's problem of treating women as consumer goods and the moral degradation of China's rich," wrote Cao Baoyin, a writer and regular commentator in Chinese media, on his blog

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