Japanese Scientists Synthesize Steak From Feces. No, Really.
This is a bit late, but we swagger during the weekends here at OL. Japanese scientists have synthesized steak out of shit. Yeah, shit. Not
The Digital Trends web site, among others (see video), reports that a scientist has devised a way to make meat, of a sort, from 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.
All of a sudden, whatever they’re making those Chicken McNuggets out of seems pretty fucking okay to me. When you condemn me for loving those McNuggets, the pink blob paste from tubes, what you’re really doing is condemning the future. Where we’re all going to eat shit-steaks.