Now is the time to go vegan
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If you ever considered
the need to go vegan
perhaps now is that time
Sooner or later it had to happen. If you were teetering on the edge about going vegan, this may just push you over.
See if 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.
Go vegan for pity’s sake
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.
Inhabitat notes that “the meatpacking industry causes 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to the release of methane from animals.” Livestock also consume huge amounts of resources and space in efforts to feed ourselves as well as the controversy over cruelty to animals. Ikeda’s recycled poop burger would reduce waste and emissions, not to mention obliterating Dante’s circle for gluttons.
The scientists hope to price it the same as actual meat, but at the moment the excrement steaks are ten to twenty times the price they should be thanks to the cost of research. Professor Ikeda understands the psychological barriers that need to be surmounted knowing that your food is made from human feces. They hope that once the research is complete, people will be able to overlook that ugly detail in favor of perks like environmental responsibility, cost and the fact that the meat will have fewer calories.
Waste not; want not.
Thanks YahooNews
Hope I didn’t spoil your dinner. If I did, go vegan.
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Two words. Holy shit.
Yuck! Brings to mind that old saying….If it looks like shit, smells like shit, taste like shit….It must be SHIT! I don’t know how they think they are going to disguse this 🙂
I am open minded but I have my limits. One of you guys need to taste this and report back to us.
Since I plan to be around long enough for this stuff to become marketable I think I will stick to my traditional omnivore diet. Besides, one of the few advantages to living in the near rural South is I can still drive a few miles and pick my meat out while its still walking around and fill my freezer up as well as pick up freshly picked veggies of various types.
I will stick with my vegan diet thank you very much.
As an omnivorous human being, I’ll pass on the vegan route and eat a balanced diet with all the proteins and amino acids a human being needs. Besides, I like looking healthy rather than pasty faced and edemic.
Well said .. humans are heterodonts… meaning we have teeth designed to pierce meat, cut eat, and chew it. Molars can be used to help digest (the mostly undigestable cellulose) from plants … I’ll stick with eating low fat meats supplemented with vegetables and fruit!
Enjoy your shit sandwiches boys.