Don't kiss me with that

Via a pretzelattack comment on Eschaton:

I remember reading somewhere that the Chinese Communists would shoot people and charge the families for the price of the bullets. Now under capitalism they take the skin. Onward and upward.

There was a time when we objected to the Chinese authorities' harvesting of executed prisoners' organs for transplant. Now, according to The Guardian, we have this:

Peter Butler, a consultant plastic surgeon and government adviser, said there had been rumours that Chinese surgeons had performed hand transplants using hands from executed prisoners. One transplant centre was believed to be adjacent to an execution ground. I can see the utility of it, as they have access and no ethical objection, he said. The main concern would be infective risk.

Have we fallen so far so fast?