By: Don Caldwell
What the heck were they thinking?
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Japanese scientists have developed a way to take human feces and turn it into meat…
Anyone up for some poop burgers?
Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda from the Okayama Laboratory certainly doesn't believe in human waste.
He thinks that's perfectly good protein you're sending out to sea, and he's found a way to extract it, mix it with steak sauce and create a fecal feast fit for a king.
It's colored red so you don't know it's poo.
"Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef," Digital Trends reports.
Prof Ikeda and his colleagues say it's the perfect solution for reducing waste and emissions from flatulent cows.
Do we have to be afraid of things like this showing up in the food supply? Probably not, but it makes you want the packaging to include where the meat came from…
What is the worst thing you would eat??
Were tax dollars spent on this???…lol
(original link)
Japanese Scientists Create Meat From Poop - FoxNews.com
By: Don Caldwell
How much is your body worth to you?
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A teenager in Huaishan, Anhui Province has sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPad2 tablet computer, as reported by SZTV on June 1.
The 17-year-old man surnamed Zheng, a freshman in high school, got connected with a kidney-selling agent through the internet, who pledged to pay him 20,000 yuan ($3,084.45 ) for one of his kidneys.
On April 28 of this year, Zheng went to Chenzhou, Hunan Province to have his kidney removed under the supervision of three so-called middlemen, and received 22,000 yuan ($3,392.97). Then he returned home with a laptop and an iPhone.
Zheng's mother discovered her son's new electronic products and forced him to reveal how he came to afford them. Then she took Zheng to Chenzhou and reported the matter to local police. The three agents' telephones have not been answered since that time.
Chenzhou 198 Hospital, where Zheng had his surgery, has no qualifications for kidney transplantation, according to SZTV reporters.
The hospital has denied any connection with the kidney removal operation, and has said that its urology department is contracted to a businessman in Fujian.
How important is your body? Your health?
It seems easy for most of us to say that we would never trade something as valuable as a kidney for an
iPad, but are we capable of making a similar decision?
What if instead of an iPad, a new car was offered (or how about a really nice car, or a house…..or 10 million dollars.)?
What is the difference between selling an organ for a possession and selling your health for vanity? How many people choose to use tanning beds (when is KNOWN by the medical community to increase your risk for cancer several times over)?
What about people who choose to smoke or alcoholics? Obesity?
In all of these things we choose to use our bodies for pleasures of the moment even as it slowly destroys our bodies.
This at the very least brings attention to aspects of our culture that celebrate possessions above so much (look how excited / vain people get about their smartphones…)
This young man may be losing a kidney…but what do you lose by chasing possessions or money yourself???
Could that be just as meaningful of a loss?
(ORIGINAL LINK)
Teenager sells kidney for iPad 2 - Global Times (China)
By: Don Caldwell
I never thought I’d see this happen…
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A Bible-belt state hoping to land a biblical theme park that includes a full-size replica of Noah's Ark approved tax incentives Thursday to help pay for it.
The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority voted unanimously to grant more than $40 million in tax rebates for the $172 million project that's otherwise being financed by a group of unidentified private investors
The latest project would will include a replica of the Tower of Babel, a first century village, theaters, lecture halls, retail shops, restaurants, a petting zoo and live animal shows featuring giraffes and elephants.
The mission of the project, Zovath said, is to lend credence to the biblical account of a catastrophic flood and to dispel doubts that Noah could have fit two of every kind of animal in an ark.
However, the notion of providing such incentives for a project with a religious theme drew immediate opposition on grounds of church-state separation and raised the specter of protracted legal battles over the issue.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State executive director Barry W. Lynn criticized Kentucky's decision, saying the state "should not be promoting the spread of fundamentalist Christianity or any other religious viewpoint.
"Let these folks build their fundamentalist Disneyland without government help," he said.
The Creation Museum has shown that tourists will flock to biblical attractions. More than 1 million visitors have visited the creation museum since it opened more than 3 years ago.
Lynn complained Thursday that public officials in Kentucky are subsidizing fundamentalist religion at a time when they should be promoting modern science for Kentucky children.
"This misguided project deserves to sink," he said.
The Government subsidizing something associated with religion. Now that is something I bet a lot of groups were fighting.
Can a place like this succeed in our modern society?
Besides the surprise regarding this one has to think about how this could benefit people. Most of us easily will accept the party line of how great museums, theme parks, and art galleries are, but do we ever think about why? In what ways would this type of attraction be good for people?
Would you get more out of a place like this or a place that is more secular…like our traditional attractions…?
(ORIGINAL LINK)
Biblical Theme Park Coming to Kentucky With Government Assistance - FoxNews.com
