Even though it's dated 2011, I've only just found this link, & was blissfully ignorant of it before. I want to see if there's been any advancement with this horror, but it'll have to wait till I get home from work.



POOP BURGER: Japanese Researcher Creates Artificial Meat From Human Feces

by Lori Zimmer, 06/16/11



Some hardcore carnivores have a hard time finding meat alternatives such as soy protein or tofu burgers to be palatable. But non-meat eaters may lose their appetite along with their carnivorous friends over this one – a meat alternative made from HUMAN EXCREMENT. Yep, you heard me correctly — Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has developed a “burger” made from soya, steak sauce essence, and protein extracted from human feces. Hit the break for a video explaining the process!



The meatpacking industry causes 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to the release of methane from animals. The livestock industry also consumes huge amounts of feed and water in relation to the amount of meat that it yields, and many find the industry to be inhumane and cruel to animals. These factors alone are reason enough for vegetarians to replace their meat intake with vegetable proteins and legumes. But Ikeda, a scientist at the Environmental Assessment Center in Okayama, sought to further the field of alternative proteins by recycling a form of protein-rich waste : sewage mud.

“Sewage mud” is exactly what you think it is – poop. Ikeda’s process begins by extracting protein and lipids from the “mud.” The lipids are then combined with a reaction enhancer, then whipped into “meat” in an exploder. Ikeda then makes the poop more savory, by adding soya and steak sauce.

Currently, the price of the poop burgers are 10-20 times that of regular meat, due to the cost of research, but he feels they will even out in a few years. He admits that “some people” may have a psychological aversion to eating artificial meat made of their own poop at first, but thinks many would be open to personally completing the food chain. He also notes that the burgers are extremely low in fat.

The artificial meat is low in fat and reduces waste and carbon emissions, however it’s hard to believe that any number of benefits could persuade consumers to take a bite out of a poop sandwich.


inhabitat.com/poop-burger-japanese-resea...feces/#ixzz1psRou8Ov

Nah.

At what point to we just push back, the chair get up and say "enough you profit greedy, people dismissing, bastards the game ends here!"

feather wrote:
When you are willing to kill for it.

You reckon it will be pushed to the point where that is the only option?

feather wrote:

It always was the only option, lol

So who is going to shoot first....

Its just a question of how hard you can push people until they stop fighting with each other and start fighting politicians/bankers etc.

It has happened in the past, although going by the conditions people suffered, it would have to be much much worse than it is now for people to get in to such a situation. We're a long way off that yet.
I'm guessing perhaps 40-50% or more unemployment and homelessness and then they'll turn. Take a look at russia before the revolution for example, conditions had to become truly horrific basically.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanni_Kaplan

The above gives some context for the type of people willing to do it and what they went through to become that type.

Her and many others went through some pretty dire times for the revolution to come about, only to discover to their horror that the whole thing had been hijacked from the beginning.

Then they got the culling to reduce the herd ofc...

I've been revisiting this in my head all afternoon.

What comes first, the willingness/desire to kill, ....... the hopelessness/nothing left to lose/willingness to die
or do they arrive pretty much simultaneously?

They are all still jockeying for position as I type this.

There's a notable difference between "Let them eat cake*" and "Let them literally eat shit".


*I'm aware that quote is historically misattributed, but you get my drift.

The actual statement was "Let them eat cack!"

oioioi wrote:
GUARDS!!

It beggars belief, dunnit! Who the hell would even think - "I've got a great idea..." etc. And then for others to proclaim it, "A potential solution to the global food crisis".

So anyway, I've had a look for any follow-up reports on this, and not found any yet (not stopped looking) but have encountered another, more recent culinary delight for you to relish. Ladies & gentlemen, prepare yourselves...

Coming to your local supermarket soon: Chicken à la maggots
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2013

“Our chicken, pork and fish dishes are fed only the finest protein-rich maggots that have been reared on a diet of cow and pig excrement, washed down with a wee dram of whisky.”

For some, this kind of menu-boast would reflect the perfect scientific solution to the growing problems of rising waste and a soaring population, while for others, it’s just plain gross.

In an effort to satisfy the ever-expanding desire for meat, the EU is planning to rear flies on an industrial scale by feeding them on cow, pig and chicken excrement and using their protein-rich maggots for animal feed. As a result, a trial is under way to determine the feasibility of mass producing fly maggots, or larvae, that could take the place of widely demanded soya beans in high-protein feeds for pigs, chicken and fish.

The move will utilise the growing mountains of animal and vegetable waste produced by agricultural expansion, as well as the “substrate” left from making alcohol, especially whisky.

“They might be a nuisance in the house but the good thing about flies is that they will live on anything and grow very fast. Every student has had them growing in the trash can at some point,” said Georg Melzer, partner at Eutema Technology in Austria, who is involved in the project.

“What’s used will depend on what’s in the area. In Scotland, if there are 10 whisky distilleries near by it will use the grain fermented in the distillation process. In Spain it might be pulp from a tomato field, while in a lot of places it will be the mixture of droppings, straw and sawdust you get on chicken farms,” Mr Melzer added. The three-year project will be led by the UK’s Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) and will use the maggots of the humble house fly – or Musca domestica.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-an...maggots-8635208.html

Some might think it's jolly innovative, and green, and resourceful and so on.

I just think, what a set of dirty bastards!

I'm just surprised our illustrious leaders haven't yet attempted to persuade us it would be best to dine on our elderly relatives, and the unemployed, perhaps sauted with a few woodlice and garden slugs. Waste not want not.

Theres already ideas about processing insect meat..

I think the two nuclear bombs the US government dropped on japan had a significant affect on the Japanese psychology.

Some don't give a shit and want to live in a fantasy world with video games and farting schoolgirl cartoons and others would be willing to eat shit to survive.

I can foresee a situation where a hamburger's found in a cockroach processing plant and gets the place shut down.

feather wrote:
That is both hysterical and depressing.

"Eat shit and Die" becomes reality.

Magpie wrote:

Or the new Bear Grylls survival show.

Another gastronomic delight to titillate the taste-buds...