Soylent Green is People
My guess is that it was a slow day in the Oklahoma State Senate. Why else would this rethuglican legislator introduce this bill?
An Oklahoma Republican is pushing a bill to outlaw the use of human fetuses in food, because, as he says, “there is a potential that there are companies that are using aborted human babies in their research and development of basically enhancing flavor for artificial flavors.”
State Sen. Ralph Shortey introduced a bill on Tuesday “prohibiting the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human fetuses.”
Though he has allowed that he is not aware of this occurring in Oklahoma, or anywhere for that matter, Shortey cited research he did on the internet that claimed that some companies use embryonic stem cells to help develop artificial flavoring. “It would be a public relations nightmare for a company to use” aborted human fetuses for R&D, Shortey told KRMG Radio, so when asked they usually say something like “we strive to do things ethically.”
Umm, senator, Soylent Green was a movie (the last one that Edward G. Robinson made before his death, by the way). Stick to serious subjects, like protecting Oklahoma’s sheep from farmers who decide to stray from their wives.
Tags: Republican Crazy
Hmmm… did you ever wonder why they call it “baby food?”
Also, this may be the end of scrapple.
If a Democrat proposed this law, Republicans would call it “job killing regulations”.
This is going to end up a ballot issue like the Sharia Law BS. I want to start a ballot issue that will ban Tom Carper from getting “Kings Rights” with brides…. if only we could do that in a democratic primary.
Breaking: Bennett proposes $100 additional fine on people who use human fetuses in food.
The rich won’t care; they’ll just pay the $100. No way will they give up eating babies.
Things must be perfect in Oklahoma when legislators, to justify their own existence, draft legislation to solve problems that we don’t even have.
Like voter ID laws to prevent non-existent voter fraud?
LG,
Yes, like ID cards to prevent voter fraud. However, there’s a degree of difference here.
There is a significant mass of Rethuglicans who have convinced themselves that non-existent voter fraud is indeed a reality. But I’d venture a guess that the use of fetuses in food is a concept that hasn’t yet penetrated the imaginations of the vast majority of social conservatives.
I give Faux News about 6 months and they’ll have the masses convinced.
This nonsense began as one of those hyperventilating wingnut emails that your aunt occasional is duped into passing along. Digby points out that this Republican idiot from Oklahoma exemplifies the “heartland “values” to which we unAmerican coastal elites are supposed to give deference and utmost respect.”
How do you make a fetus float?………………..2 scoops of ice cream and a fetus