Willis recently wrote about The Long View of Feeding the Planet and all I can say about this idea below is that it is too long wrong. But, this is exactly the sort of thing that some wacky eco-types would see as part of a “sustainable future”. Even Soylent Green sounds better.
From Digital Trends
It’s being called the “poop burger”. Japanese scientists have found a way to create artificial meat from sewage containing human feces.
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.
h/t (I think) to WUWT reader “Ray”
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I am so glad you posted this….
🙁
Now I just hope the Sun eplodes.
This sounds like the review of Spinal Tap’s “Shark Sandwich”
Can you honestly and reliably tell me this isn’t what McDonalds has been selling all along?
Anyway… don’t think too much about where ANY of your food comes from. Especially mushrooms… eww. The whole food chain relies on recycling of waste at some point.
I’mjust glad I never had to taste test the the failed prototypes.
Sounds like the vat meat in certain science fiction books.
After all the news about safety hazards in organically grown food, I’ll pass. >.<
dog food substitute obviously.
dont let that sheriff in Arizona hear about this
Yuck. That’s even grosser than a Science News story years ago about eating maggots. (Farmed maggots eating clean meat, not your typical road kill maggot mind you.)
Ah – See http://blog.asiahotels.com/i-dare-you-to-eat-those-bugs/fried-maggots/
Sort of a carnivore version of bean sprouts. Maybe safer!
SOS
This seems better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JryIpyi-54E
Soylent Brown is people…feces?
Don’t tell McDonald’s
The McTurder Burger is nigh!
Oh, crap.
what you eat today walks and talks tomorrow 🙂
Mmmmmm! Turd Burger.
Oh dear. How they love to reinvent the wheel.
In the 1970’s We did all this from windmills to cooking human waste to provide food back then: I have no idea what it tasted like but it was declared wholesome and nutritious.
Of course that was all to stave off the end of cheap energy, the oil was going to run out and all that, and food was going to be scarce and I do not know what else.
Never happened.
Still I suppose those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it all over again.
Kindest Regards
This requires legislation. I really don’t care which party runs with it, but this has to stop here, go no further, end, fini. All my future votes will be grounded on the principle that feeding people poo should be a national offense, and here, I am drawing the line. No teriyaki poo for this family. Stir fry poo is a non-starter, sum yung poo is right out. This is a poo free zone. Poo by any other name is still poo. This could be the best thing that ever happened to kimchi.
So, has anyone tasted it. Anything like prime rib??
this is so odd. Of a cultures, it is the Japanese who want to do this? I Love their esthetic, their art, food, industrial design. This is so un-Japanese.
To be served at the Green Peace awards dinner. With Al Gore doing the presentation.
Nothing new here surely? The green diet is still the same…..
Well, coffee beans shat out by civet cats are already a high-priced delicacy. This just goes one step further.
Excellent food for Greenies. Then at least they will be taking my advice – “Eat Sh!t”
I sure hope im gone before this comes out…..im starting to feel that if it comes within the nexts 30 years….yea, i’ll be here…..and i’ll remmber this…….
Edible is such a subjective term…