Japanese researcher Mitsuyuki Ikeda has come up with perhaps the greenest alternative to the livestock industry yet: he's engineered fake meat from human feces. Ikeda's artificial meat is made from extracting lipids and protein from "sewage mud," combining these lipids with a reaction enhancer and putting the whole thing in an exploder to combine it. Steak sauce and soy sauce add saltiness and a dash of umami to the fake meat.
Mitsyuki Ikeda's fake meat from human feces may not float your proverbial boat, but it's an innovative form of food production that reuses one of the most renewable substances on the planet. Ikeda notes that the "burgers" are low in fat and, because they don't rely on livestock, won't raise carbon emissions or waste.
Check out a video of Mitsuyuki Ikeda's fake meat from human feces below. Would you ever eat one of these poop-sourced patties?
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June 18, 2011
What's next? McSludge?
The real irony, for me, in this article is that here's a guy who can take poop and make it taste like "real" food whereas I once dated a girl who could take real food and make it taste like poop. Ain't that some s***!
June 13, 2012
Gah. This is not the future. I am sure people WANT this to be the future, but I would rather grow all my food alone than pay for this. Who is the idiot calling this a "savage world"? At that point, in this "possible future" I would sooner commit suicide then eat poop for the rest of my life during the apocalypse. Grow some tomatoes or carrots, don't eat poop.
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