You Have Beautiful Tubby Eyes

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readNov 20, 2009
A little goes a long way

Police in Peru have arrested five members of a gang suspected of killing people for their fat, which they would drain from the victims’ bodies and sell on the international black market as a treatment for wrinkles. While experts are skeptical that such a market exists, I don’t think we should be so quick to dismiss it: Given the demographics of this country, this may in fact be the perfect method by which we subsidize health care.

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