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QUOTE 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.[/quote]
Some of the comments are awesome:
Waiter! There's corn in my steak!
Here's some suggestions for future restaurant name changes:
SubWaste
Crap in the Box
Poopy Tuesdays
Red Plopster
@#$%-Out Burger
PopBrownEye's
T.G.I.Fecals
Pooters
Orange Poolius
TurdBurger King
Rectals Pretzels
Benihanus
Cinnabum
Crapplebee's
Long Brown Slivers
Eat s**t, 60 TRILLION flies can't be wrong!!!!
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It's Fecalicious!
At 1:32 on the video, the fridge is labeled: @#(! Burger.
It's official, I would not be opening up any fridge that this dude has been near.
Also 2x points to a scientist that uses a pointer that has red nail polish on it. That so outclasses my Expo white board markers for pointing at things.
Can't they instead make awesome proteins that super-yeast would eat up and make us delicious ethanol out of? I might be able to eat a Poo sammich if I was completely
@#(! faced.
It's official, I would not be opening up any fridge that this dude has been near.
Also 2x points to a scientist that uses a pointer that has red nail polish on it. That so outclasses my Expo white board markers for pointing at things.
Can't they instead make awesome proteins that super-yeast would eat up and make us delicious ethanol out of? I might be able to eat a Poo sammich if I was completely
@#(! faced.
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McDonald's *is* actually 100% beef. It just looks and tastes funny because they basically combination steam/boil it in plastic trays, which if you've ever done to ground beef, you know it makes it look crayola grey.lexaal wrote:QUOTE (lexaal @ Jun 25 2011, 04:17 AM) McDonalds is doing it for 50 years. Again it's japan copying American "high tech".
Taco Bell on the other hand has *OATMEAL* as the main ingredient in it's taco meat which is why they can't call it "beef" like they used to. (which kinda makes sense considering the taco bell conglomerate also owns quaker oats. Makes you wonder about Pizza Hut though...
Yo Quiero Isolated Oat Product
QUOTE "Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate."[/quote]
Mmmmm. Polysaccharide absorbed as glucose.....
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