Japan scientist synthesizes meat

[Ban Hammer 14,193]

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.

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i shudder to think of what one would get if they ask for a "steak" well done.

[Eric-Pris 1,607]

YUMMY!!!!

My mouth is watering just thinking about a delicious sh*t steak.

[^_^ 5,021]

YUMMY!!!!

My mouth is watering just thinking about a delicious sh*t steak.

In a future America where corporatist forces, in collusion with their paid whores in both major political parties, have deregulated to the point where food manufacturers are no longer required to tell you where food comes from, you won't even know you're eating a sh*t steak.

The last laugh will be theirs.

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[Eric-Pris 1,607]

In a future America where corporatist forces, in collusion with their paid whores in both major political parties, have deregulated to the point where food manufacturers are no longer required to tell you where food comes from, you won't even know you're eating a sh*t steak.

The last laugh will be theirs.

I seriously doubt that.

[Ban Hammer 14,193]

phrases that will now have new meaning:

eat chit! (will now mean dine well)

chit eating grin (someone who just had a steak)

well done (taking a monster dump)

[isleta521 5]

This steak tastses like shiiit!!!!

[Zero Sum 305]

Smoked sh|t

[Vi-Jay 218]

Sh!t, it's what's for dinner.

[웃 910]

I eat sh!t for breakfast

[SMR 368]

Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef.

This probably just means that most Japanese people don't know what real beef tastes like.

[Ban Hammer 14,193]

next time you see a fast food place advertise 100% real beef - think of this story.

[Vi-Jay 218]

The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak.

I'm thinking "Exploder" = "Azz"

Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef.

"People" in the same sentence as "tastes". Who taste tested the beef flavored Sh!t?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Soylent Brown.

Seriously, if food production cannot keep up with consumption (and it is generally believe that it can't) then this may very well be the sort of thing that we end up eating in the future.