Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech//kajimto-lab-develops-ekiss/">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://inhabitat.com/poop-burger-japanese-researcher-creates-artificial-meat-from-human-feces/">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 http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/japan-considers-national-solar-power-to-replace-nuclear-dependency/">environmental responsibility, cost and the fact that the meat will have fewer calories.

Waste not; want not.

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Yeah I dont think so.

I'll go vegan before that happens

LMAO. The fridge is actually labeled "SHIT BURGER"?

On the contrary, MrBubbles. Waste IS; want not :/

Also, if it's priced the same as actual meat... why not just buy real meat?

And people say we have evolved far from chimps .....lol.

Personally, no matter how beneficial this product could be towards eliminating beef consumption and simultaneously reducing the deforestation of the rain forest (to make land for raising cattle). I do not think people would consume this in mass quantities unless the government did not inform the populace of its origin. This would work in uneducated, poor countries were people are living off the most meager diets already. Science is amazing.

Meatpacking, the new Fudgepacking.

they do it in start trek, so it must be good.

This could be of use in Africa. Who wants a shit burger?! lol

Did they tell the people who were taste testing it what it was before or after they ate it lol?