It’s their number-one product
This starts out pretty much like any public-health campaign:
Large amounts of sugar are excreted on a daily basis by type-two diabetic patients especially amongst the upper end of our aging population. As a result of this diabetic patients toilets often have unusual scale build up in the basin due and rapid mould growths as the sugar put into the system acts as nutrients for mould and bacteria growth. Is it plausible to suggest that we start utilizing our water purification systems in order to harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance?
Short answer: yes. Until you see the product of this harvest:
Sugar heavy urine excreted by diabetic patients is now being utilized for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export. The Whisky market is growing faster then any other alcoholic beverage worldwide. With a prevalent genetic weakness being exposed in the northern hemisphere leading to a sharp rise in type two diabetes, economists have found a new exportable commodity to exploit and are keen to capitalize on this resource quickly.
Gilpin’s “whizky” is not likely to be a hot seller, I suspect, though vast quantities of its “secret ingredient” have been sold in the States for decades as [enter name of some brand of beer you can't stand].
(Via this Syaffolee tweet.)
fillyjonk »
6 September 2010 · 11:02 am
This horrifies me on many levels. The two main ones being the “ick” factor and the “Hey, let’s make Gramma at least start ‘paying’ for her Metformin!”
Andrea Harris »
6 September 2010 · 11:32 am
=O
Ew.
Joseph Hertzlinger »
8 September 2010 · 2:31 pm
IIRC, a similar beverage was mentioned in Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich.