Repub OK Legislator Introduces Legislation to Ban Food Made From Human Fetuses

[Chipster]

When I first read this, I thought it had to be a hoax despite it being published in the Oklahoma State college paper.

So I checked it out at the Oklahoma State Legislature website. Here's the bill itself, SB1418, introduced on 1/18/2012.

I've no clue why Senator Shortey thinks this legislation is necessary. Any ideas?

[JackintheGreen]

1. But I do all my Satanic rituals in OK! n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Damn.

Guess you won't be able to go to a restaurant in OK and order Fetus au Vin or Fetus Stroganoff or any of those other luscious fetus-based culinary gems for which Oklahoma is so famous. And they probably won't be even be selling Fetus Helper in grocery stores.

Seriously, even The Onion couldn't come up with this shit.

[kestrel91316]

3. Oh, silly me. I hadn't noticed that cannibalism had become an issue in OK.

But it's been one of those years. I've had other things on my mind.

[yourout]

4. The Soylent Green law.

[link:

|

[Angry Dragon]

5. Soylent Green

He must have thought it was a documentary

[riderinthestorm]

6. First thing I thought of was the Protocols of Zion.

I'm guessing the author of this bill is a sick racist idiot.

[unblock]

7. why are republicans anti-business? these onerous regulations only mean that

people will be forced to go out of state for their soylent green.

vote "d" if you believe in the free market!

[surrealAmerican]

8. Perhaps the Senator has been finding too many human parts ...

... in his food lately?

[BlueIdaho]

9. What kind of a sick fuck

Thinks up shit like this?

I hope his mother is proud of him.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

10. uh oh, so the pubs are gonna starve Newt out of the race.

[Zalatix]

26. Ouch... LOL!

[Guy Montag]

11. As if there were danger of there ever being such a product

The panderers to the notion of liberals as baby killers have hit a new level of hysteria.

Anti-soylent green fundies, who would of thought they would plunge to this depth?

[unblock]

12. actually, it's a bit of an anti-abortion trick.

the idea is to get people to object to it on the grounds that would be cannibalism because a fetus is human.

then they go aha! a fetus is human! therefore adult women are machines to be operated by our dictates!

[tammywammy]

13. This is where it's coming from

(pardon the source, this is what started all this fetuses in food outcry)

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biotech-company-using-cell-lines-from-aborted-babies-in-food-enhancement-te/

Biotech company using cell lines from aborted babies in food enhancement testing

LARGO, Florida, March 29, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pepsico, Kraft Foods, and Nestlé are among the corporations partnered with a biotech company found using aborted fetal cell lines to test food flavor enhancers, according to a pro-life watchdog group. 

The internationally recognized biotech company, Senomyx, boasts innovation and success in “flavour programs” designed to reduce MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products.  Senomyx notes their collaborators provide them research and development funding plus royalties on sales of products using their flavor ingredients.

Pro-life watchdog group, Children of God for Life (CGL), has called upon the public to target the major corporations in a boycott, unless the company ceases to use aborted fetal cell lines in their product testing.

“Using isolated human taste receptors,” the Senomyx website claims, “we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.”
-snip-

[Chipster]

25. Thanks, tammywammy, for your explanation.

[Zalatix]

28. Okay now I admit, I have to agree with laws that stop THAT.

Although, coming from "Lifesitenews", I have reasons to doubt this is really happening.

[tammywammy]

29. It's has to do with HEK 293.

[The Straight Story]

30. Here is a thread I posted on it examining the claims:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002171420

[Chipster]

42. Thanks, Straight Story, for your research and report. And to everyone else,

for their often good humor!

[a simple pattern]

14. He has an interest in a competing business that manufactures food products out of human toddlers,

and wants to do away with the younger, tenderer competition.

That's my guess.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. To do with this, I think

Christian anti-abortion group says aborted fetuses are used in food taste-enhancement tests

Last April, the anti-abortion site, LifeSite News, reported that aborted fetuses are finding their way into the commercial food industry's research.

They were taking issue with Senomyx' "isolated taste receptors" program, which a group called "Children of God for Life" claims come from "human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors." Last spring, Children of God for Life issued an action alert calling for the boycott of Pepsico, Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, Solae and Nestlé, which the anti-abortion group alleges hire Senomyx for flavor enhancement.

Campbell Soup cut ties with Senomyx, according to the Children of God for Life. PepsiCo responded,

PepsiCo has a strong set of defined values we strive to live up to. Unfortunately, there is some misinformation being circulated related to research techniques that have been used for decades by universities, hospitals, government agencies, and private companies around the world. These claims are meant to suggest that human fetal tissue is somehow used in our research.

That is both inaccurate and something we would never do or even consider.

http://www.goddiscussion.com/88742/christian-anti-abortion-group-says-aborted-fetuses-are-used-in-food-taste-enhancement-tests/

[Chipster]

27. Thanks, muriel_volestrangler, for your explanation.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

33. If this is true (which it almost certainly isn't IMHO)

then isn't this legislator interfering with the sacred "free market"? I thought government regulations- ANY regulations that inhibit the free market are evil? Why does this guy hate the free market?

[muriel_volestrangler]

37. There's no Republican who wouldn't interfere with the free market if he thought it'd get him votes

even 'libertarian' Ron Paul would have done this - in a state legislature, anyway.

[YankeyMCC]

16. More anti-Atheist legislation

[Capitalocracy]

40. Now what am I going to eat for lunch?

I always stop by the Planned Parenthood Cafe on my lunch break.

[Solly Mack]

17. Damn. There goes my Super Bowl Guacamole.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. The concept that food is made of disgarded fetuses is as stupid as

the Blood Libel myth of matzohs being made from sacrificed Christian children.

[Generic Other]

19. I suppose you all thought those deep fried twinkies at the Oklahoma State Fair

came from the Twinkie fairy! They were fried in amniotic fluid, people!!

[jberryhill]

20. Out of season? Or for the whole year?

[jberryhill]

21. This will devastate sales of Chianti.

[GoneOffShore]

22. What will Mittens do to feed his followers if this passes?

[Initech]

23. Damn. There goes my idea for Soylent Cola.

[louis-t]

24. Repubs: Solving problems that don't exist for over 100 years.

[yourout]

31. Repubs: Creating problems that don't exist for over 100 years.

Repubs: Creating problems that don't exist for over 100 years.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. I must have missed something

This is a problem (in Oklahoma)?

[leeroysphitz]

34. I gotta say I'm ok with this law. n/t

[Loudmxr]

35. What an anti capitalist!! He must be an American hating liburl!!

There is nothing so sweet as blended human fetuses covered with a rich Belgian chocolate with a garnishment of Lark's vomit..

No wait wrong sketch....

The principle is the same without the dead Brit.

[greiner3]

36. So this means;

The uber rich can't get their liver pate the regular way anymore?

[Stinky The Clown]

38. This is the kind of legislator the religiously insane put and keep in office.

Inhoff comes to mind.

And the doctor, Coburn.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

39. On the other hand, the Republiklans seem to have no problem

with food made with human feces.

I'm serious. Witness the number of food related e-coli incidents and the repuke contempt for the FDA, EPA, etc.

[kickysnana]

41. I would demand a psych hold on this guy, just because this is classic delusional. n/t