Oh Japan, you so crazy....

[Gnnr]

Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces (http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110615/tc_digitaltrends/japanesescientistscreatesmeatoutoffeces;_ylt=A0wNd PsfQ_xNwggBdJqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNmYTRranN0BGFzc2V0A 2RpZ2l0YWx0cmVuZHMvMjAxMTA2MTUvamFwYW5lc2VzY2llbnR pc3RzY3JlYXRlc21lYXRvdXRvZmZlY2VzBHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5b l9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA2phcGFuc2NpZW50aQ--)

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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So I guess I can stop making fun of people when they're eating and they say this shit taste so good.

[5pecialist]

Um... wow. Speechless.

[DS562]

no. nonononononononono. fuck. no.
not eating your shit steaks.

[ayuaddict]

hahahaha, did anybody else see the label on the fridge?

P.s. homeboy looks like a vampire.

[iHateMySilvia]

shit burger

i like that lil index finger pointer hahaah

[Mr Miyagi]

oh boy, How I love Japan

[BustedS13]

naw japan

japan, naw

[drift freaq]

wow Soylent Green. :rofl: Wrong Japan just wrong. LOL And he is from Okayama fucking Aya's prefecture. LOL. Wait till she here's this.

[word sux]

psh

I have been doing this for years

[rich250x]

japan you cray cray lol

[andisan]

oh wow, thats going to take alot of A1 :D to mask the fact that its dokey

[4DOOR_LIFE]

NxD2VmZiLJ0

[Future240]

Oh Hell no. I must say I not even a bit surprised this comes from Japan.

[bookoo]

Probably the most disgusting thing I have ever read....wow japan.

[ayuaddict]

Yeah, if this actually happens you won't know what you're eating.

[LimeLite Racing]

No thanks, Japan.

[HyperTek]

come on guys it is resourceful!! talk about going green, or is it going brown? lmao jk

[Daniel.]

Just wait till they make it into a paste and put it in Chicken Nuggets.

[brndck]

well since they already don't label food to make people aware that a major portion of what you eat has been genetically modified, i wouldn't be surprised if this starts slipping in to supermarkets, once the cost is reduced.

[ronmcdon]

Idk about the Japanese (they are just weird, and already have restaurants serving ppl poop),
but good luck with this working anywhere else in the world where there isn't starvation.
nobody else is going to put up with such a disgrace of eating poop.

it's a commendable effort, but ultimately impractical.

[lflkajfj12123]

stoked :bowdown:

[towlie]

Genius if you ask me

[fliprayzin240sx]

Idk about the Japanese (they are just weird, and already have restaurants serving ppl poop),
but good luck with this working anywhere else in the world where there isn't starvation.
nobody else is going to put up with such a disgrace of eating poop.

it's a commendable effort, but ultimately impractical.

Impractical? With the world population booming exponentially every year, how do you think the planet is going to support all the human life on this planet? When real steak gets stupid expensive, here's your cheaper alternative.

Would i eat it? Fuck no, not if I can help it. If tomorrow the planet gets hit by a fucking asteroid and wipes out all the plants and animals off the planet, then I might just consider it in a couple of months after eating human carcasses. I'd eat you first before I eat your poop.

[KiLLeR2001]

Protein is protein is protein.

[simmode1]

I'd eat you first before I eat your poop.
:rofl: I'm supposed to be too mature to find this amusing, but I'm not.

[ronmcdon]

Impractical? With the world population booming exponentially every year, how do you think the planet is going to support all the human life on this planet? When real steak gets stupid expensive, here's your cheaper alternative.

Would i eat it? Fuck no, not if I can help it. If tomorrow the planet gets hit by a fucking asteroid and wipes out all the plants and animals off the planet, then I might just consider it in a couple of months after eating human carcasses. I'd eat you first before I eat your poop.

It is impractical now.

As per the article, it's not an affordable alternative.
There are a lot more readily available sources of nutrition, such as insects.

The rest of the world may have it's own issues, and I can honestly care less.
Most of us live in a place where meat & veggies are readily available.
We don't have any practical reason to seek out a higher cost alternative.
We don't have any reason degrade ourselves to such lows.

It is also impractical to consider the doomsday scenarios you so mentioned.

But hey, if you're so inclined, don't let me get in the way of you eating shit & enjoying your 'end of the world' delusions.

[KiLLeR2001]

If they can change piss water into purified water, then why not turn poop into meat?

[HalveBlue]

And I thought Jesus's whole turning water into wine thing was amazing...

[K_style]

Just put some Rooster hot sauce and it will taste good !!!

LOL...

[niscur29]

hmm...use this for napkins?

http://thewebgangsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/shbegone.jpg

[DALAZ_68]

no. nonononononononono. fuck. no.
not eating your shit steaks.

THis^ all the way...all the fucken way...

No no no, fucken no...

[jrocslider]

lol @ 1:34

mmmm shit burgers

[simmode1]

And I thought Jesus's whole turning water into wine thing was amazing...
Jesus: "I turned wine into water..."
Japan: "I'll see your wine water & raise you one shit steak..."
Jesus: "Ugh!" >__<

[ayuaddict]

and I can honestly care less.

Then you care too much.

Um, what about all the plants grown from natural fertilizers?

[wannabdr1ftr]

That's just not right...

[BoostSlideWayz]

gurantee there going to be secretly serving it to customers and seeing how they like it and so just dont eat stake.. or ..... who knows what else they are making.

*EDIT* my mom saw this and * I dont care if its recycling im not eatin someone elses SHIT!!! *

[Future240]

Just wait till they make it into a paste and put it in Chicken Nuggets.

.25 Double Cheeseburger. :barf:

[SR240DET]

what if this can be used in survival situations? Like a pocket size poop processor.

[Guitar Nut]

lol maybe some people will think its as good as chocolate or something..You never know

YouTube - &#x202a;Dave Chappelle - Stole My Chocolate&#x202c;&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oxv-VDQED4)

[Banana_Cute]

Kids will go crazy for this since its FROM JAPAN. Cmon now. Bring it over here Frozen.

[ronmcdon]

Then you care too much.

Um, what about all the plants grown from natural fertilizers?

Nope, I still don't care to eat processed poop.
Doesn't mean I don't find the reasoning behind it interesting.

Plants aren't poop, fertilizer's just a nutrition source.
Likewise I wouldn't mind eating lobster, even though I wouldn't eat carrion.
By that line of thinking what we would eat would be very limited.
Everything would be connected to poop or decaying matter in some way or another.

I can live with eating veggies and meat.
I can't stomach the concept of eating processed poop.
From the looks of the responses on this thread, I'm obviously not the only one.

[ManoNegra]

lol, whait until it becomes cheap enough and McDonalds finds a way to legally not have
to report what's in the meat...

[Bobafreak]

^^ I was thinking the same thing. A way to say were saving money from this so called "economical meltdown".

[fckillerbee]

haha. I laugh cause you guys are worried about eating shit steaks.

they are getting protien from this....how are you going to know that you're protien shakes aren't made from shit? You won't...cause no one reads that shit.

As gross as it sounds...energy is energy.

[va240dude]

I don't understand why people are flipping out thinking that this one dude represents Japan, and it is being served at local burger joints. This guy is a genius and just because it's possible doesn't mean there will be a demand for it in countries like Japan. Japanese are extremely clean people and I cannot see them embracing this as a society. This scientist was given a challenge from Tokyo waste management and he succeeded. I bet people with money globally are already looking into this stuff just because it's 20x more expensive and rare than regular meat haha.

[Taniguchi_Is_#1]

How can you say you love japan if you can't even eat its poop?

[raz0rbladez909]

But guuuuyyyyysssss its jay-dee-emmmm

[mrflip69]

Dude, just like someone said earlier... shit is old. Literally! LOL

Never heard of scat? 2 girls 1 cup? (Regardless if that was real or not... there's definitely real ones out there).

They should feed this to our prisoners, blue/white collar alike. Maybe fresh, unprocessed even! :P

I hope this is the next craze in drifting hahahahaha!

[Daniel.]

How can you say you love japan if you can't even eat its poop?

:rofl:!!!!!

HAHA

[axiomatik]

How can you say you love japan if you can't even eat its poop?

I lol'd. best post/reference yet.

[raz0rbladez909]

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[One_love_silvia]

eV5fQJhOhLU

+1000 rep (if i could) for epic reference of epic movie.

and like someone else said, just becuz someone did it, doesnt mean the country is going to move from steak to shit steaks. correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure the japanese have too much pride to degrade themselves by eating poop.

and im pretty sure the places ur referencing as tothey already serve shit in japanese restaurants only pretend its shit. the toilet bowl store where the soup looks like shit?

[Obsidian]

Japan has always been touted as the country that can never come up with new inventions/innovations, but can improve existing ones to no end. I think at best they're just trying to break that assumption they've put themselves in with things like this.

Simply put it's more of an "I did it just to do it" thing.

like drinking a 20 shot espresso.:hsdance:

[daryl337]

correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure the japanese have too much pride to degrade themselves

http://www.theanimereality.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/anime-pillow.jpg
Wat.

[raz0rbladez909]

http://www.theanimereality.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/anime-pillow.jpg




Wat.

BWAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHA :keke:

[bizarke]

No Mather what they put in it, cook it or nuke it. That shit sounds badddddddd. Oh and its shiiiiiiiitttttt!!!
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[axiomatik]

but im pretty sure the japanese have too much pride to degrade themselves by eating poop.

Have you never seen Japanese television?

[Daniel.]

correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure the japanese have too much pride to degrade themselves by eating poop.

and im pretty sure the places ur referencing as to only pretend its shit. the toilet bowl store where the soup looks like shit?

This whole statement is self contradicting.

They have too much pride to eat fake shit soup out of a toilet shaped bowl?

Har har.

[secondtonone317]

Jesus: "I turned wine into water..."
Japan: "I'll see your wine water & raise you one shit steak..."
Jesus: "Ugh!" >__<

Jesus: Earthquake on you

[WanganRunner]

This is pretty remarkable, but I can't ever see it being used to feed humans.

Maybe for animal feed, or some kind of biofuel.

[exitspeed]

I'll starve. Thanks.

[LimeLite Racing]

I'll starve. Thanks.

They can make it into wings and you can review them. Mmmmmmmmmm

[AAV240sx]

Fake?
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRZdMBwojU)

[Rally240sx.com]

:fart:

:zombie:

[exitspeed]

They can make it into wings and you can review them. Mmmmmmmmmm

Hahahha....never.



Ok maybe.

[Bobafreak]

Exit...Your site is gnarly! I must say its cool seeing the new recipes and wing options out there. Its taken my wing game to a whole new level!

[soreballz]

This whole thing reminds me of a Curtis Plum song called "Jack in the Pine Box".

http://www.myspace.com/curtisplum/music/songs/jack-in-the-pine-box-64706889

[One_love_silvia]

http://www.theanimereality.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/anime-pillow.jpg
Wat.

everyone knows the japanese are pervs lol. thats a different kinda pride XD

[diablo_cc]

"Welcome to McDonalds, would you care to try our new McFecal Meal today?"
"You know what, on second though I think I'd rather have Chic-Fil-A"

[CaptainVlad]

I suspected it was fake when I saw "shit burger" on a label.

Still funny though.

[Gnnr]

I suspected it was fake when I saw "shit burger" on a label.

Still funny though.

Its no fake (original post) that vid a few posts above is just a joke.

[exitspeed]

Exit...Your site is gnarly! I must say its cool seeing the new recipes and wing options out there. Its taken my wing game to a whole new level!

Thanks man. Working hard on it and it's just going to get better.

[slammed13]

Why are people shocked by this?... From the creators of Tentacle Porn.