NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
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NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
An End To World Hunger? Surgeon Transplants Goat Stomachs Into Poor People So They Can Eat Grass
A prominent surgeon from the Hoboken, Oregon Medical Institute, Dr. Midros Hienzmucker has perfected a revolutionary way of ending world hunger. Dr. Hienzmucker crafted an operation that transplants a goat stomach into a human stomach. The human recipient with the added goat stomach can then eat grass, or even paper--anything that a goat can eat and digest it. Furthermore the enzymes in the goat stomach process the grass carbohydrates into energy giving nutrition.
"This is a development that has the power to transform the world," says humanitarian Edzel Frustrawhip. "Dr. Hienzmuckers foresight may create a future world without hunger and make possible the end of poverty."
"If you think about it," says Dr. Heinzucker, "humankind expends incredible labor and energy to feed grass and grain to fatten cows, chickens and other animals. Then we eat their meat, eggs and milk. This is very inefficient. Why don't we just eat the grass ourselves?"
If enough poor people move lower down on the food chain the world would need less land for food production to feed teeming populations. That would ensure that rich countries like the United States could use the freed up agricultural land for more important things like growing crops for bio fuels so Americans could continue motoring around from Walmarts to McDonald's. Many studies have pointed out that even if half of America's crop land was devoted to bio-fuels it would only offset five per cent of oil consumed in America.(link) If a big percentage of Americans and other people in the world transplanted goat stomachs into their bellies and ate grass more farm land could be freed up for bio-fuels.
"This is great news," said Bio-fuel entrepreneur Altoik McFesterboud. "We have heard a lot of mean spirited bio-fuel criticism from scientists. But now there is a possibility that millions of people with new goat stomachs will only eat grass. Hopefully liberating the land for bio-fuel will shut up the bio-fuel critics."
A cow needs to eat six pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat. A pig needs to consume four pounds of grain to produce one pound of bacon and ham. Many people have advocated a vegetarian diet as a way of getting more bang to feed people. Critics have made the case that much grazing land is unsuitable for growing crops. That is until now. Now with the possibility of goat stomach transplants humans can now eat grass grown anywhere. If you can't afford a steak you don't even need to resort to beans and rice to conserve your wallet. You can just eat your back yard. If you are poor and live in a teeming overcrowded slum with scant grass, hay is even cheaper than rice or beans. And if more people switch to a grass diet we can be sure there can be more ethanol produced to be able to ship the hay to slums in Rio and Calcutta.
But the beauty of using goat stomachs is that goat stomachs can digest just about anything--even paper. So it will be possible to feed the masses with recycled newspapers--and old newspapers are even cheaper than hay. This could bolster the newspaper and magazine industry by adding value to their products. Newspaper sales are sure to increace if it includes a free meal.
"This is a positive development," says Economist Hubert Humperdinker. "This may be the economic jolt that can help the world economy break out of this recession by stimulating the goat breeding and stomach transplanting industries. I think the Obama administration should implement a program to train medical technicians to install goat stomachs into poor people and give them tax incentives to perform the operations."
http://meltingclocktimes.com/transplanting-goat-stomachs-into-poor-people-may-end-hunger
If you can't be bothered to read the whole story, simply, They have figured out how to put goat stomachs into people. Goats are able to digest pretty much anything, meaning poor people who can't afford good food, can simply get a goat stomach and eat whatever they can get and they can get nutrition for pretty much anything.
Do you think this is a good way to solve world hunger, or do you think this is just a way of avoiding the real issue of poverty?
Do you think its ethical to put goat stomachs into people? And if you were in dire straits and unable to afford real food, and you were offered the stomach transplant surgery, would you take it?
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
That is....
FRAKING AWESOME
FRAKING AWESOME
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
April Fool's joke...
EDIT: Or not, seems the entire website is in an alternate reality.
EDIT: Or not, seems the entire website is in an alternate reality.
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
War wrote:April Fool's joke...
EDIT: Or not, seems the entire website is in an alternate reality.
I think I must have been high when I read this. You are right, and I remember why. I don't know why I forgot one obvious fact. Goats have a four chambered stomach and use ruminant digestion.
I don't know why that didn't occur to me sooner. Sleep deprivation, causing illogical thoughts for me.
Urgh, and I want to be a doctor If I make mistake like that, that won't be likely.
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
So this is a wierd joke on behalf of the website?
I was really scared for a bit. Still, it does raise the moral issue here, is it worthwhile considering changing where people are 'in the food chain' to allow richer countries to carry on the way they are?
I think not. I think its scary they even thought this up. 'Poorer people' already eat a poor diet consisting of sub par grains. Surely the richer countries should invest in ways to change their habits, rather than feeling those already unfortunate should bear the brunt of their actions?
I know this is probably a sardonic article, trying to make a point about the state of things, but it still scares me someone had the thought!
I was really scared for a bit. Still, it does raise the moral issue here, is it worthwhile considering changing where people are 'in the food chain' to allow richer countries to carry on the way they are?
I think not. I think its scary they even thought this up. 'Poorer people' already eat a poor diet consisting of sub par grains. Surely the richer countries should invest in ways to change their habits, rather than feeling those already unfortunate should bear the brunt of their actions?
I know this is probably a sardonic article, trying to make a point about the state of things, but it still scares me someone had the thought!
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
No don't worry. Now that I look at it logically (which I don't know why I didn't sooner), its impossible. Goat have a ruminant digestive system meaning it goes through multiple stomachs before being fully digested. Humans cannot support such a digestive system.
Urgh....I don't know where my logic went when I read this.
Urgh....I don't know where my logic went when I read this.
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
I know, I read your earlier post
What I meant though was it was scary that the thought occured to some one that changing the way 'poor' people live (not biologically, but in every sense) could mean it was easier on others, who were more fortunate.
Even if that was the issue the person was trying to raise in this spoof article, it goes to show that people feel richer economies are becoming ever more destructive to less fortunate people.
So really it was a good thing to raise, an interesting article, if not somewhat an odd way to make a point on the authors behalf
What I meant though was it was scary that the thought occured to some one that changing the way 'poor' people live (not biologically, but in every sense) could mean it was easier on others, who were more fortunate.
Even if that was the issue the person was trying to raise in this spoof article, it goes to show that people feel richer economies are becoming ever more destructive to less fortunate people.
So really it was a good thing to raise, an interesting article, if not somewhat an odd way to make a point on the authors behalf
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Indeed. Even if it were possible, you'd be killing goats just to save peoples lives and, you'd be telling people that instead of fixing the core issue of poverty to simply adapt to their lower standards of living by getting a stomach that would allow them to eat garbage. Treating them like animals in a way.
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
LordRemington wrote:you'd be killing goats just to save peoples lives
Seriously, Remi?
Didzo- EuroSpore 1948
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
lol, well seeing as we eat goats anyway, I don't think its too much of an issue of using them to save lives (if it were possible), we breed dogs and rabbits just to squirt chemicals into their eyes, usually so we can safely put stuff round our eyes, that's worse.
But the thought occuring that it would be acceptable to make vunerable people have even lower standards so the rest of us can continue to be greedy is stupid and immoral. It also skirts round the core issues, as you said.
I think thats what the article is trying to say and highlight, given current affairs and things.
But the thought occuring that it would be acceptable to make vunerable people have even lower standards so the rest of us can continue to be greedy is stupid and immoral. It also skirts round the core issues, as you said.
I think thats what the article is trying to say and highlight, given current affairs and things.
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Didzo wrote:LordRemington wrote:you'd be killing goats just to save peoples lives
Seriously, Remi?
Sorry, came out wrong. I meant it would be unethical to breed goat for the sole purpose of using them to harvest their organs. Ofcourse preservation of human life is important, but when it comes to poverty, there are other ways of fixing the problem other then this (this ofcourse being hypothetical as this isn't a possibility). but I guess like Red said, they are a food source, so using the organs of goats that had been used for food wouldn't be an issue.
Urgh, I think I'll stop now. Not thinking straight today.
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
LordRemington wrote:Didzo wrote:
Seriously, Remi?
Sorry, came out wrong. I meant it would be unethical to breed goat for the sole purpose of using them to harvest their organs.
....Seriously?
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Didzo- EuroSpore 1948
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Isn't that already done?
Arkanay- EuroSpore 2007
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Disregard what I have said. I'm really not thinking clearly right now or in the state of mind to make a coherent point.
SuperLoki- EuroSpore 1997
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Is this an April Fool or summit?
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
I really don't like the idea at all. First of all there is only enough grass just to feed the animals. If our kind and the animals consume a lot of it, it's only going to make things far worse. Just thinking about it gives me the shudders.
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Vektrix wrote:Is this an April Fool or summit?
Remi and his shenanigans... tsk tsk tsk
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Arkanay wrote:Vektrix wrote:Is this an April Fool or summit?
Remi and his shenanigans... tsk tsk tsk
Wouldn't be a normal day for me without causing some sort of Shenaniganery.
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Saw it on Reddit, so at least we know it's not Remi's shenanigans, unless he's a Redditor?
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Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
SuperLoki wrote:Saw it on Reddit, so at least we know it's not Remi's shenanigans, unless he's a Redditor?
Don't even know what reddit is? Remember, technologically and interwebbly retarded I am.
Re: NEWS: Implanting goat stomachs into people may solve world hunger.
Thinking about this makes me realize just how sensitive our stomachs are given the way the food industry is...
Remember where we came from?
Remember where we came from?
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