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Jeff Hughes June 15, 2011

* Green Technology
* International

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.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces

[Underwaterbob]

I read about this this morning. It also currently costs 4x as much as hamburger. Appealing, no?

[Ya-ta Boy]

Ick.

Just ick.

[nobbyken]

I've seen many crap burgers for sale here too.

[Elle]

I feel...half-impressed and half-disgusted at the same time. It's a genius way to reuse waste and yet it is really, really, really, REALLY UNAPPEALING.

[On the other hand]

I hear that scientists have also found a way to extract pure drinking water from toilet-flush containing urine and feces. In some countries, they've been using it for decades.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Friend Lee Ghost]

Cows crap in the fields and you eat what grows there. In fact, more fertilizer -> more yummy!

But seriously, must i give you any more reasons to become vegetarian?

Coprophiles are going to get really fat.

[Stout]

Rabbits seem happy with their lives.

[ontheway]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVpN312hYgU

[Louis VI]

1. Many mammals including apes eat their own feces.

2. What an application for long distance space travel!

3. The Japanese also created MSG and high fructose corn syrup: functional, tasty but unhealthy. I'll pass.

[young_clinton]

[wintermute]

What's for dinner tonight?

"Leftovers"


Seriously, if I was starving and someone offered me a poop burger - I'd eat the person instead.

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

I'm wondering who tested it.

[ontheway]

"You are what you eat."