Ethan Gutmann, an investigative journalist and author of several books about China, made an interesting discovery while interviewing a Uyghur woman from Xinjiang, China. While there, she had been forced to pick toxic peppers, and when asked what she thought the peppers were used for, she said cosmetics. According to Chinese state media, China produces about half of the world’s pigments for cosmetics, and just this year, Xinhua did a piece on the peppers used for cosmetics grown in Xinjiang. In the video, th
