Because the lawmakers of this nation don’t have real-world issues that need to be resolved, a state senator in Oklahoma has introduced legislation that would finally put a stop to the abominable, completely nonexistent practice of using tissue from aborted fetuses in food.
Senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma City claims that his independent research on the Internet convinced him to call for the ban in an attempt to raise “public awareness” and give an “ultimatum to companies” that might someday think about putting fetuses in your cookies and potato chips.
An FDA rep tells the Associate Press that “FDA is not aware of this particular concern,” and even the executive director of Oklahomans for Life tells the AP, “I don’t know anything about that.”
For some reason, not every member of the Oklahoma state legislature thinks it should spend its time banning fictional practices.
“We’ve got too many challenges facing Oklahomans today. We don’t need to go looking for possible challenges that may come about sometime in the future,” said Sen. Brian Crain, chairman of the Senate Human Services Committee. “If it can be demonstrated that this is a challenge facing our food supply, then I think we need to act quickly, but there’s been no demonstration that this is going on… I’d hate to think we’re going to spend our time coming up with possibilities of things we need to stop.”
Next up on the agenda, what to do with the state’s surplus of canned unicorn meat.
Okla. senator wants ban on human fetuses in food [Chron.com]
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BAN SCHMAN!
I’m glad I at least live in a state that still lets me eat my Baby Crisps! Next thing you’ll know he will want to ban Crunchy Frog!
Yea…imaginary…so….go ahead and don’t come to my christmas dinner.
But what about fetuses that give themselves willingly?
I had to add -Oklahoma to my google search even find this.
http://paranoidnews.org/2011/11/aborted-fetuses-found-in-food-humanity-one-step-closer-to-soylent-green/
Okay, while all the snarky comments are appropriate per the way the article has spun the oakie’s words, a quick google search for “pepsi+fetus” will show you where his idea came from. And while I do agree there is probably some self aggrandizement happening from the “we must save the children” in this case “the unborn children” political pandering world, he’s got a point at the core.
google: pepsi fetus and you’ll see where he’s coming from and enjoy the hidden food pleasures offered up by senomyx (.com).
Hopefully, if this guy ever figures out how to find his Twitter @replies he’ll quit in shame.
What’s he hiding??!?
I want my baby back, baby back…Chili’s aborted baby back ribs!
This guy has watched the “Fat Bastard” scene in Austin Powers a few too many times.
He must think manbeef.com was the real thing. He’d better stay away from Christwire and Landover Baptist then.
Senator Shortey should read his Bible and ban the treyf sold everywhere such as cheeseburgers and shirmp…
Oklahoma? Isn’t this the same state that wants to prevent the imposition of Sharia law, too? Something that will NEVER happen?
Like there’s not enough real shit to worry about.
This guy’s aptly named. Shortey, right? He’s shortey in the common sense department. When God said brains, Shortey thought He meant trains and missed his.
This all has to do with Senomyx & religion. http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-foods/senomyx
It seems that Senomyx is using HEK293, which stands for Human Embryonic Kidney cells.
And we must stop the island nation of Nauru from developing weapons of mass destruction!
The first thing that popped into my mind when I read this was, ” Hey, you!!! Get in my belly!!!”
Maybe he read the book _Stiff_ by Mary Roach. She wrote about how certain people in China will ingest aborted fetuses for health reasons. I cannot imagine that is a common practice here, though.
Approval Rating of 9%. These guys are trying reaal hard this year to shape up.