Japanese Make "Delicious", Nourishing Steaks From Human Feces

• Xemnas wrote on 2011-06-19 00:16

  
  
  The researchers say the meat is delicious and tastes like beef. It is colored with red food coloring to give it a pleasing tone.
  Mankind's food chain may become a loop
  
  Mankind has come up with all sorts of ideas for new meat sources from cloned animals to chowing down on insects, but this idea may be the most outlandish yet.
  
  The Tokyo Sewage service in Japan serves over 13 million people over approximately a 2,200 square kilometer area. It approached Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, with an unusual problem -- it had too much "sewer mud" (also known as human excrement).
  
  It turns out human excrement is a breeding ground for scores of bacteria. So Mr. Ikeda cooked up an unusual solution -- make food [video] out of the feces.
  
  The first step is to cook the bacteria, killing them, and to extract their proteins via separation techniques according to Yahoo News. Soy protein is added to enhance the flavor. The meat mixture travels to a "reaction enhancer" (likely a chemical reactor of some sort) where it turns into a textured "meat" and is then extrude through an "exploder".
  
  The delicious "steak" is even finished with red food color to give it a comforting hue. Mr. Ikeda claims that in initial testing people found the feces steak to taste somewhat like beef.
  
  Mr. Ikeda is afraid the main obstacle to deploying excrement meat to the masses is the "psychological barrier." He states, "I admit that few people would be keen to eat it knowing its made of human excrement."
  
  Indeed, the concept of "fake" meat alone is hard for some to swallow. Taco Bell was recently sued when diners discovered that its beef mixed "fake meat" filers with real meat.
  
  How much would the "meat" cost? Mr. Ikeda comments, "As far as the cost is concerned, because at the moment it includes the cost of research our artificial meat is 10 to 20 times more expensive than normal meat. But once the research is complete and it's put on the market, we'll probably be able to price it at roughly the same level as normal meat."
  
  The new "meat" is also healthier than traditional meat as it’s an ideal mix of 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids and 9% minerals. The small fat content, in particular makes the feces steaks healthier than their animal counterpart.
  
  The new meat would also cut down on the greenhouse gas emissions, which traditional livestock produce. In that regard it could even earn "carbon credits" helping its price to be cheaper than animal-derived meat.
  
  The idea may sound crazy, but consider that Japan is no stranger to fine meat products. Its Kobe region beef is renowned by connoisseurs worldwide for it's delicious flavor.
  
  And as the band Pink Floyd famously sang, "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?!"

  
  
  wat.
  http://www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Make+Delicious+Nourishing+Steaks+From+Human+Feces/article21932.htm
• Cynic wrote on 2011-06-19 00:17
  It comes out of the body for a reason, lawdy..
• Nintega wrote on 2011-06-19 00:19
  Ignoring the fact that this is about 10 feet away from cannibalism, this sounds interesting...
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-06-19 00:23
  Does it taste differently depending on what you ate before?
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-06-19 00:23

  Quote from Cynic;480981:

  It comes out of the body for a reason, lawdy..

  
  
  protein from your food can be found in your feces
  thats why some dogs like eating cat poop
• Cynic wrote on 2011-06-19 00:25

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;480991:

  protein from your food can be found in your feces
  thats why some dogs like eating cat poop

  
  
  It's still bodily waste.
  Aside from the fact that it's pretty gross, it would more likely do more harm than good.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-06-19 00:27
  Good news for poop fetishists. *thumbs up*
• User495 wrote on 2011-06-19 00:28
  lol "pudding" oh, the irony
  
  anyways I'd eat it.. if I didn't know that's what I ate
  
  dunno which is better
  
  eating "poop" or slaughtering innocent animals, then eating those just to have people continue to raise them just to slaughter them
  
  

  Quote from Cynic;480997:

  It's still bodily waste.
  Aside from the fact that it's pretty gross, it would more likely do more harm than good.

  
  
  pretty sure it's not 100% the original piece of turd that contains all the waste, at least I don't think they'd be dumb enough to keep that part in there
• Blassreiter wrote on 2011-06-19 00:38
  "We'll probably be able to price it."
  
  Why price it when people can have it homemade?
  
  Watch they finally create BioMeat....
• MikeHo wrote on 2011-06-19 00:40
  Human centipede...
  
  lol...
  
  South park episode lol.
• Kansi wrote on 2011-06-19 00:42
  If it tastes as good, or almost as good, is priced reasonably and has no detrimental effects to my health I'll eat it.
• TA wrote on 2011-06-19 00:54
  Pay for real meat or pay the same price for human **** that tastes like meat?
  
  HMMMMMMMM.... TOUGH ONE.
• psyal wrote on 2011-06-19 01:00
  You know, they're more so eating the bacteria that grew on the feces than the feces themselves.
• TA wrote on 2011-06-19 01:09
  This is one of those things that'll never see the light of day until there's some massive food shortage.
  
  In which case, we'll never run out of food since our poo will be our food!*
  
  [SIZE="1"]* = Once reprocessed and made "delicious." Some restrictions may apply. Not available in all areas. Offer presented as-is. No refunds.[/SIZE]
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-06-19 01:34
  Don't the bacteria produce toxins in whatever they're in so that even if you kill them, the toxins remain?