Protestors in Vancouver, Canada, are planning to picket Oprah's appearance in the city because she endorses a face cream made from baby foreskins.
The billionaire talk show mogul has called SkinMedica's creams her 'magic fountain of youth' and urged her devoted fans to try it - at $150 an ounce.
Glen Callender, a Vancouver native who campaigns for 'foreskin awareness,' said the endorsement is hypocritical for Oprah - who has made an issue of stopping female genital mutilations in Africa.
'Imagine how Oprah would respond if a skin cream for men went on the market that was made from parts of the genitalia of little girls,' Mr Callender told the Vancouver Sun.
Some researchers are calling 'neonatal fibroblast' a revolution in medical skin care. Tissue grown from the cells of infant human foreskins are being used to help heal wounds in new ways.
However, SkinMedica, a Southern California company, also claims that the cells make an unparalleled anti-aging cream.
However, the San Diego City Beat reports that SkinMedica hasn't harvested a foreskin in 20 years. The company instead grows the cells it needs from a single foreskin sample.
'Initially, there was a misunderstanding and people thought we were actually grinding up the foreskin,' SkinMedica founder Dr Richard Fitzpatrick told the newspaper. 'So, there was a lot of snickering and laughing about people putting this foreskin product on their face.'
However, Mr Callender, the founder of the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project, says the cream is unethical nonetheless. He called his group the 'feistiest pro-foreskin advocacy group' in Canada.
'I would like Oprah to come to her senses and realize that all children have a fundamental human right to keep all their genitalia and to decide for themselves if anything gets cut off,' he told the Vancouver Sun.
Mr Callender said 'one to two dozen' people will show up at Oprah's sold-out live show in Vancouver.
Oprah Winfrey did not respond to the Sun's request for comment.
Source: DailymailUK
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