Poop Burger - now eat smurf poo!!!

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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.

We already have these. They call 'em Tofu Burgers.

How is this either "fun" or a "game"? Guess the fecal remnants?

No thanks - I don't like smurf poo steak!

MetalGuy71 wrote:

We already have these. They call 'em Tofu Burgers.

How is this either "fun" or a "game"? Guess the fecal remnants?

you got that right!!!

That's what they'll serve at the Poop Doom Spam Tank concert.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

How is this either "fun" or a "game"? Guess the fecal remnants?

Posted by mistake on this forum, but only moderators can "move" it now.

Where should it go? The toilet?



I'll move it to "Unsound Mind" (I live there anyway).

Shawn D. wrote:

Where should it go? The toilet?



I'll move it to "Unsound Mind" (I live there anyway).

The Japanese can keep their "crap" to themselves.

I'm guessing that marketing these as "turd burgers" would be detrimental to sales...

While I appreciate the effort to create a renewable food source, I will not be eating any of this crap!

Click through to the full article and watch the video. When the scientist goes to the refrigerator in his lab, the door is marked in English "sh!t burger." I kid you not!

Who would even want to eat something like that ? It doesn't sound appetizing at all.

If all the meat dissapeared and this was the only alternative, I'd for the first time in my life embrace a vegetarian diet.

DallasBlack wrote:

If all the meat dissapeared and this was the only alternative, I'd for the first time in my life embrace a vegetarian diet.

+1

The guy that came up with this must be a BIG fan of "The Human Centipede".

I shudder to think of their marketing campaign for this product...

exact33 wrote:

I shudder to think of their marketing campaign for this product...

"TASTES LIKE SH*T...
BECAUSE IT IS!"

DallasBlack wrote:

exact33 wrote:

I shudder to think of their marketing campaign for this product...

"TASTES LIKE SH*T...
BECAUSE IT IS!"

at least they could use some scenes from Monty Python...

Vegetarianism. F*ck yeah.