Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces..!!

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OH JOY...just what we all need..!!

While this is do-able and would probably be safe and nutritional, it just reads and sounds so beyond appealing.
Glad I'm not the Ad Exec trying to sell this one.

Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

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It's being called the "poop burger". Japanese scientists have found a way to create artificial meat from sewage containing human feces.

Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces.

Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria.

The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak. The “meat” is 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids and 9% minerals. The researchers color the poop meat red with food coloring and enhance the flavor with soy protein. Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef.

Inhabitat notes that “the meatpacking industry causes 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to the release of methane from animals.” Livestock also consume huge amounts of resources and space in efforts to feed ourselves as well as the controversy over cruelty to animals. Ikeda’s recycled poop burger would reduce waste and emissions, not to mention obliterating Dante’s circle for gluttons.

The scientists hope to price it the same as actual meat, but at the moment the excrement steaks are ten to twenty times the price they should be thanks to the cost of research. Professor Ikeda understands the psychological barriers that need to be surmounted knowing that your food is made from human feces. They hope that once the research is complete, people will be able to overlook that ugly detail in favor of perks like environmental responsibility, cost and the fact that the meat will have fewer calories.

Waste not; want not."

http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/

This would actually be a good way to create Animal feed.
I can see it being used on Pigs, Chickens, etc.
Being devoid of the flesh of other Animals, it would be far safer too once in the food chain.
Besides, they'd never give a second "thought" about whats for diner.

M-M.
 
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I saw that yesterday, and thought, "Turd Burger" But they'll probably outsource it to China to save on processing cost, and China can cut corners, and well, you know.......:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:


Just a side note.......we will be forced to eat $hit because of global warming!
 
At least it's not green 'soylent'! Kinda' looks like gyro (the Greek sandwich) meat.
Coming soon to a McDonalds' near you - McDoodie!
 
Have a cup of coffee to wash it down.

Expensive coffee from crap

Indonesia kopi luwak is a rare kind of coffee that apparently goes for $30/cup in some fancy Hong Kong hotels. The secret to its reportedly fine flavor is that the beans are collected, swallowed, and crapped back out by wild civets, small, arboreal mammals that are currently endangered. Today's Los Angeles Times tells the story of the $600/pound coffee. The article quotes Canadian food scientist Massimo Marcone, author of a new book that sounds fascinating: In Bad Taste?: The Science and Adventures Behind Food Delicacies. From the Los Angeles Times:
 
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