… Soylent Green is L-Cysteine …

You learn something new every day.

For instance …

While looking over some ingredients on some won ton wrappers, Liz asked me to identify something called “L-Cysteine”. Thanks god for the internets and this information highway! It just saved me from a whole mess of trouble.

L-Cysteine is an amino acid commonly used in food flavoring. Companies such as McDonald’s and Burger King use it in their hamburger buns. Most L-Cysteine comes from China. The most common industrial food grade sources for L-Cysteine are:

HUMAN HAIR AND DUCK FEATHERS!!!

L-Cysteine literally comes from the floors of Chinese barbershops. Some companies have publicly stated that their L-Cysteine is of the DUCK FEATHERS variety thereby avoiding any associations with such unsettling things like PEOPLE EATING PARTS OF OTHER PEOPLE IN THEIR DOUBLE McBACON!

Yell it from the mountaintops! Everyone must know! This stuff is in all kinds of food products and dietary supplements. Does this constitute a low level form of cannibalism?

Oh … the HUMANITY!!!