Poop Burger

[Wayne02]

Think of the possibilities for homesteaders, talk about the potential for recycling and self-sufficiency.

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.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/interna...-out-of-feces/

[sisterpine]

Oh my goodness! I think I would become a vegatarian! Reminds me of an old movie called "soylent green", that one gave me nightmares for years and their food was only made out of riotous citizens!

[Ifistav]

I'd like to know who tested the "food", YIKES!!!

Ifi

[Harry Chickpea]

What was that movie? "Centepede?" Skip the middleman.

[PrincessFerf]

That's just nasty.

To quote Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

[Rick]

As a user of sawdust toilets my thought is "Yuck"!

Is this where the world is headed? I'll keep feeding mine to my soil, thank you.

Interesting post to say the least.

[sirquack]

No way in HE double toothpicks.

[Harry Chickpea]

Yogurt is yogurt culture poo. Wine is yeast poo. Honey is bee vomit.

[oregon woodsmok]

psychological barriers? Ya think?

That's actually a very old idea from any science fiction novel involving space travel. A closed system, everything must be recycled.

It would make at least marginal sense to extract the proteins and make them into animal food. Few people have any idea what is in the feed they give to their animals.

[lonelyfarmgirl]

Originally Posted by Harry Chickpea

Yogurt is yogurt culture poo. Wine is yeast poo. Honey is bee vomit.

you eat it then! I wonder how much they paid the guy who took the first bite.
SICK! And I was thinking the same thing. Soylent green is next, BEWARE!

[Danaus29]

Originally Posted by oregon woodsmok

That's actually a very old idea from any science fiction novel involving space travel. A closed system, everything must be recycled.

By recycled I thought (hoped) they meant it was used as fertilizer for food plants growing in the hydroponic system. I've got no problem with it after it's been converted to plant material. After all, the water we drink today was included in dinosaur pee a million years ago.

[KimM]

EEEWWWW. No more Japanese restaurants for me, just in case.

[geo in mi]

I thought it was supposed to taste like chicken.....

geo

[Farmerwilly2]

I believe in this case it would be soylent brown.

[Michael W. Smith]

Originally Posted by Danaus29

After all, the water we drink today was included in dinosaur pee a million years ago.

Pee from a million years ago? Ummm . . . think yesterday or a couple days ago. Most places get their water from rivers / streams.

All the other places upstream also get their water from the same place (and release "treated" water from their waste water treatment facility. Most of the times it is treated (or at least supposed to be), but mistakes do happen (or bypassing on purpose).

I would prefer any "excretement" I eat be processed by the soil microbes first, and then turned into plant matter and then into animal matter.

If it's so expensive, why not do away from the research and just avoid the middle man altogether. Collect everything in a chamber pot.

"Honey, I'm home. What's for supper?"

"Yesterdays chamber pot contents, I made soup today and heated it up."

Okay, I'm going to go throw up now.

[geo in mi]

I eat "prefarted" beans. You know those beans with the brown spots on 'em?

geo

[big rockpile]

Gives New meaning to Eat Sh.. and Die!

big rockpile

[plowjockey]

"Poop Burger"

Isn't McDonalds already selling these?

Their french fries, already taste like they were cooked in automatic transmission oil.

[lonelyfarmgirl]

Are you kidding! Mcd's burgers may be gross, but their fries are darn good, tranny fluid or not.

[Randy Rooster]

Oh waiter! Waiter! My steak tastes like sh-t!