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- POOP BURGER: Japanese Researcher Creates Artificial Meat From Human Feces (Inhabitat, June 15, 2011):
Some hardcore carnivores have a hard time finding meat alternatives such as soy protein or tofu burgers to be palatable. But non-meat eaters may lose their appetite along with their carnivorous friends over this one – a meat alternative made from HUMAN EXCREMENT. Yep, you heard me correctly — Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has developed a “burger” made from soya, steak sauce essence, and protein extracted from human feces. Hit the break for a video explaining the process!
The meatpacking industry causes 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to the release of methane from animals. The livestock industry also consumes huge amounts of feed and water in relation to the amount of meat that it yields, and many find the industry to be inhumane and cruel to animals. These factors alone are reason enough for vegetarians to replace their meat intake with vegetable proteins and legumes. But Ikeda, a scientist at the Environmental Assessment Center in Okayama, sought to further the field of alternative proteins by recycling a form of protein-rich waste : sewage mud.
“Sewage mud” is exactly what you think it is – poop. Ikeda’s process begins by extracting protein and lipids from the “mud.” The lipids are then combined with a reaction enhancer, then whipped into “meat” in an exploder. Ikeda then makes the poop more savory, by adding soya and steak sauce.
Currently, the price of the poop burgers are 10-20 times that of regular meat, due to the cost of research, but he feels they will even out in a few years. He admits that “some people” may have a psychological aversion to eating artificial meat made of their own poop at first, but thinks many would be open to personally completing the food chain. He also notes that the burgers are extremely low in fat.
The artificial meat is low in fat and reduces waste and carbon emissions, however it’s hard to believe that any number of benefits could persuade consumers to take a bite out of a poop sandwich.
Tags: Food, Global News, Japan, Mitsuyuki Ikeda, Science, Shit burger, Technology
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June 18th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Wow, he must be eating this meat too because his face looks like SHIT!! hahahaa!!!!
June 20th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
WTF??? I wouldn’t eat that shit if you paid me!!!
June 21st, 2011 at 7:03 pm
He looks like shit, thinks like shit, looks like shit … and he is trying to sell this shit idea to us? Is he a shit or what?
June 22nd, 2011 at 3:21 pm
oh fuck!! human doesnt eats shit and if they eat they are not human…
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:21 pm
My friend Saurin (from Mumbai) visited Japan few days ago and he loved this Burger a lot.
On his return he brought a lot of them, but unfortunately he alone has to eat them all (as they were s**t for us)!!
June 23rd, 2011 at 2:13 am
what the hell …u should ask the shit prof how many shit burger that he already taken….shit?
June 23rd, 2011 at 3:19 am
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June 23rd, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Eyark…!!! WTF??!!!! are they lost their mind eating shit???!!
June 24th, 2011 at 2:43 am
well, We all are eating shit (shit=>plant=>produce) and drinking piss (animals=>reservoirs with drinking water) anyway.
the guy just sped up the process. it’s psychological only.
June 25th, 2011 at 10:00 am
“Hopfully at last this will solve the worlds huger problem”
June 26th, 2011 at 8:20 am
Heck, I’d try it at least once. Honestly, it’s not actually made of shit, if you think about it, they just took the protein and lipids and recycled in a way. Besides, they might taste good.
Don’t knock it ’till you try it.
June 27th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Yak,,
only pigs eat shit…
and we are not Pigs..
No Idea about Japnese people..
Yeah its true that they are very good at Technology,
But Please don’t Do Experiment on Shit……
Yak…. Yakkk…. Yakkkkkkk…
June 29th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
is not shit, its only the proteins taken out of human excrements
July 1st, 2011 at 3:56 am
Once they will try to check how it is with the meat from dead body for example. SOme things are simply strange too much. And that´s why we should search different way.
We eat cca 5 x more meat than generations before.
PEOPLE ARE STUPID.
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July 10th, 2011 at 4:34 am
I rather die that eat shit, helllllll NO
July 10th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Japan, the world respects you for your innovations and creations, ideas, technologies and almost everything. Please do not flush all the compliments that your country had received globally all these years into the toilet bowl with your utmost stupid and disgusting discovery of shit burger. The professor who created the burger looks like shit himself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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July 26th, 2011 at 5:06 am
Serious qurestion. This reminds me of Solent Green. So if in the worse case senario, we have only this to eat, how many times can it be recycled before we run out of nutritional benefits?
And no I am not even thinking of trying it, just curious if they have even thought this far.
July 26th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
I’d try them XD
September 13th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
The people in here who think that you’re literally eating shit, definitely have a brain made from poop.
September 28th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Well, maybe we’ve been eating this for a while but is now when they are showing it off. I can not dany that some times when eating the dollar menu from mcdonald or bk the meat tasted like a shit… is it only me or someone else have had that experience???
October 18th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
I think the girls from 2 girls 1 cup will have no problem about it lol.
November 11th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
if you think how water is recycled then it is not such a big thing after all!!!!
March 14th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
eat shit and live
October 5th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Awh this is so gross yet still so FUNNY! Abviously it must be a joke, right? First time I saw the article was in The Onion magazine and I figured it HAD to be a parody, but IS IT??? Either way, man I laugh so hard every time I think of this. It is toilet humour, literally. The video is awsome!! I plan on sending the link to some friends. The funny thing is that it’s almost believable that something like this would come out of Japan. And if it is real, OH GOD… just let them try and market it and see what happens.
Of course it WOULD fail in America where there’s plenty of good old fashioned beef to go around. They would have better luck marketing it as a meat alternative to vegans, but then how do you know that the people who’s shit the protein came from did not get it from meat in which case it would probabaly not be vegan after all. Maybe if they ferment it like Quorn it would take off but they would have to hide the secret of where the high protein value really comes from. Maybe they could genetically modify the E.Coli to make it taste like chicken too!! Haha! Lol!
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