[p4irs]

Thu Jun 16, 2:03 am ET

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://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrend...meatoutoffeces

[fenek]

I'd have never imagined that, one day, I would see a Japanese man eat a hamburger made from human shit.

[güttsfükk]

i love the scientific sign on the fridge door at 1:34

"Shit burger"

[Faline]

"turd burger"

[sherrimccharles]

What am I supposed to tell my husband when I have a giddy smile on my face all morning. Awwe turd burgers

[thorny007]

Only in japan, those fuckers have a shit fetish worse than germans.

[Steve]

We all have to eat shit and like in our lives looks like we may be doing it for real, oh my lordy lordy.

[švabo]

from ass to mouth

[Blewvane]

See!! My fetishes aren't all that strange now, are they??

[alyjo07]