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  • Poo burger?

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/interna...out-of-feces/#
    Mom of 3, Veterinarian

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    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.
    Mom of 3, Veterinarian

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    • #3
      Holy. Shit.

      Lol

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      ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
      ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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      • #4
        Why would someone even think that was a good idea?
        Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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        • #5
          That is disgusting. Then again, so is this and we are probably eating it more often that we think:

          http://distilledopinion.wordpress.co...ith-meat-glue/
          Married to a newly minted Pediatric Rad, momma to a sweet girl and a bunch of (mostly) cute boy monsters.



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          • #6
            "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."

            Yeah...not gonna happen...even a little.

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            • #7
              Gross, yuck, ew!
              Loving wife of neurosurgeon

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              • #8
                I heard about this on HBO's Real Time.

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                • #9
                  Gives a whole new meaning to the saying: don't shit where you eat.
                  married to an anesthesia attending

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                  • #10
                    We can't even process our food for consumption, pre-consumption, properly. Shouldn't we start with revolutionizing the way our food is grown/handled/killed before we just move directly to recycling poo?
                    *facepalm*
                    Wife to Family Medicine attending, Mom to DS1 and DS2
                    Professional Relocation Specialist &
                    "The Official IMSN Enabler"

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                    • #11
                      Eeeww! Who the hell got stuck on that panel to try the first ones? "Umm...yeah....I think this one needs a little more soy protein flavor and perhaps a tad more red food coloring."
                      Charlene~Married to an attending Ophtho Mudphud and Mom to 2 daughters

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