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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So are we moving from mad cow disease to mad human disease?
Hold the gravy.
I’ll second TimiBoy on his post, except I suspect that the Greenies have known about this for years and partake in this product.
After all they’re “full of it ”
Now I’ll look at meat free burgers in the supermarket with even more scrutiny and suspicion.
I’m sure the “progressives” will be standing in line for it.
Behind my mess hall in the army there were five galvanized cans, labeled…
Paper
Metal
Bone
Grease
and…..
Edible Garbage
The last was the butt of many jokes, and one wondered when that can went back in the front door the mess hall.
But the latrines were one-way, fortunately.
We’ve been getting this stuff from our politicians for years so why on earth shouldn’t they force us to eat it as well?
That settles it … I’m going on a diet.
What next? Replacing chocolate chips with rat raisins?
Can this be Re-Recycled?
Well, it’s a good contingency plan as a possible replacement for the crow that certain AGW “scientists” are going to have on their plates in a few years.
Oh so much for talking out of your arse. Topoo anyone??
Darn. Kind of takes the sting out of the French imprecation: “Mange la merde!” It’s now a gourmet delight!
Or not.
My dog considers it a delicasy
Ha, kudos to lots of the comments here today. Funny, intelligent and pointed. WUWT comments so much better … Well done folks
I hear it tastes like Chicken!
If there are food shortages, why not simply stop the corn to alcohol subsidies? If we stop burning food in our cars, we’ll have more food and money.
Willis’s analysis did not go far enough. Most skeptics consider the recorded warming since 1850 or so a result of climate improvement since the Little Ice Age (LIA). And some expect that the warm conditions will not last. One view is that warming and cooling cycles are natural and that we are now enjoying the positive phase of the cycle as the Modern Warm Period. We expect another cold period to follow and with it a significant decline in agricultural production as occurred during the LIA.
When the population reaches 12 billion and the next little ice age comes our descendants will eat whatever they can afford. Good for you if your children and grandchildren will be able to eat American beef.
The advantage of the Japanese approach is that the required capital investment will be a lot less than for the “Soylent Green” solution (harvesting plankton from the sea). If the Japanese process is feasible, then waste from cattle as well as humans could provide feed-stock for bacteria.
As for the UGH! factor–how many drugs are now based on extracting substances from molds and bacteria? Penicillin and how many others?.Mushrooms are grown on manure. Compost made from manure makes good vegetables. Besides if hogs follow cattle fed on corn, about 10% of weight gain is from scavenging the undigested corn kernels in cow dung.
Happy eating.
Poo – the other brown meat.
Guys, noone is talking about eating raw shit – just protein separated/purified from the other crud. I’m a bit surprised at the hyper-emotive responses here: a protein molecule is just a protein molecule, regardless of its history. Just like water is water, even though it has passed millions of times through the intestines of men, water-buffaloes, rats, tape-worms … !
Rejoice — now there finally is a vegan version of Soylent Green 8():
@ur momisugly Ian E..
I do hope you missed the the sarc tag on that – remember what happened here in the UK when animal protein (bovine cow) was fed back to the same animals that produced it (bovine cows)
If you really don’t know, look up “BSE”
regards
A UK cow farmer
My calender must be up the spout, I thought April 1st had been & gone! 🙂
My late father in law was a pig farmer (good bloke, WW2 wireless operator /air gunner and had lovely daughters). Maybe somebody in that industry could care to comment on what they feed pigs nowadays?
It appears that life imitates art.
So it’s just another perpetual motion machine then. ( yes I know )