Japanese Scientists Learn How To Make Meat From Poop (EWWW!)

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What if I told you the image above was poop? Would you eat it, even if it tasted like meat? Luckily for you, the image above is not poop – it’s just regular old meat (how boring!). Despite having perfectly good, poop-free meat (like the image above), Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has come up with a way to turn human feces (from sewage mud) and turn it into steak. How / why is would anyone do this? No, seriously. WHY!?

How To Make Poop Burgers

I’m sure it’s harder than it sounds, but here’s the recipe on how to make steak for your poop burgers (I know you’re dying to try something new for that upcoming barbecue!).

  1. Find some sewage with a bunch of human waste in it.
  2. Extract the protein from said human waste (it has a lot of protein because of all the bacteria).
  3. Add a reaction enhancer.
  4. Put it in an “exploder.”
  5. Watch tasty meat appear before your eyes!

The meat itself is made up of 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 9% minerals, and 3% lipids. In order to make it taste and look better, they add some red food coloring and some soy protein. Apparently, people actually think it tastes like real meat.

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So, why in the world would you want to make, let alone eat, poop burgers? First of all, it’s good for the environment. Cows supposedly cause around 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions. On top of that, it will help with the whole “Sewage Mud” thing (and having too much of it). In fact, Ikeda was originally contacted by Tokyo Sewage because they wanted to do something with all their crap.

If that doesn’t do it for you, then also know that Ikeda’s meat is better for you too (less fat). Right now, the poop-meat costs 10-20 times more than regular meat, but eventually he hopes to bring the price down to make it comparable to regular meat. The only question is, will people actually eat it, knowing how it’s made? If it tasted the same, I’d probably give it a shot. It seems sanitary, and everything is killed anyways. My only concern is the taste. Maybe if they serve it to people who don’t know that it’s made from poop proteins.

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So what about you? Would you eat a poop burger? What kind of side would you get with it? Important questions for an important topic…

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  • Hinoeuma

    Yeah, I had a feeling. Aside from the ‘eww’ factor, it makes no sense. 

  • Karlaxwp

    I don’t se humans eating this but it could be used as a replacement for pet food, or in the zoo….

  • Crowned1022

    Remind me never to order the “crappy meal” at a McDonald’s in Japan.  When they serve you your sh*t burger will the person behind the counter ask you if “you want flies with your meal”?

  • Jonathan

    The ending music is “Ava Nagila” ! Say Koichi is this tune famous in Japan or something? Because I know it’s a popular jewish song and last time I was in Japan I found it in a Karaoke (and couldn’t hold myself from singing it and having everyone looking at me)

  • Ericka

    O_o Wow…well at least now you’ll be accurate when you tell someone their breath smells like sh*t.

  • Lillian S

    I can’t do it -_-’ Anything outside of absolute necessity wouldn’t make that possible.  I mean… It’s poop

  • Lillian S

    I can’t do it -_-’ Anything outside of absolute necessity wouldn’t make that possible.  I mean… It’s poop

  • Crowned1022

    I’m all for recycling but this is way, way over the top.    

  • Hawkins

    The reason they banned the use of human waste as fertilizer is the same reason American soldiers weren’t allowed to eat at Japanese (any Asian) restaurants unless they used ingredients shipped from the U.S. (this was during the Korean war (while it was being actively fought)) The soldiers ended up with Hepatitis, even after the food was prepared or cooked. 

  • ahhyea

    this one was proven to be a hoax, go find the video of it :)

  • ahhyea

    this one was proven to be a hoax, go find the video of it :)

  • http://mistersanity.blogspot.com Jonadab

    Okay, let me get this straight:  adding soy makes it taste *more* like beef?  

    And people are going to *eat* this?

    Where I come from, 50% soy burgers are made from 50% beef and 50% soy, and the added soy makes them taste a lot *less* like meat.  They’re only served in cafeterias where people have no option (in prisons and schools mostly), and everyone agrees they taste like poop.   In the schools they mostly go uneaten, because the kids know they’ll be leaving school in a few hours and can get actual edible food (or at least junk food).  The school cafeteria only has to _serve_ food, on a budget; they don’t have to worry about whether the kids actually eat it.  One imagines the prison inmates, who don’t have regular access to non-cafeteria food, probably actually eat the nasty soy burgers.

    100% soy burgers, presumably, would taste a lot *more* like poop or, at any rate, a lot *less* like meat.  I don’t think GFS (the outfit that sells nasty food in bulk to cafeterias) carries such things, but they’re probably available from mail-order “health food” catalogs or something.

    Burgers made from poop extract and soy would, one imagines, be even worse, which makes them at least three distinct levels worse than anything an American would voluntarily eat (outside the context of a fraternity hazing ritual).

    Come to think of it, they could probably find a market for it in California.  They eat all kinds of wacky junk out there.  I’ve read that there are entire restaurants in California devoted to selling, I swear I am not making this up, fish tacos.  Then there’s the “luwak” coffee.

  • Chris

    hey, i am so glad you used my flickr-photo to illustrate your wonky page…! the problem is, every time i see that photo, i get really hungry. even the mention of poop can’t get that out of my system. regards, chris.

  • http://mickmurillo.com Mick Murillo

    “Cows supposedly cause around 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions”

    You should say that  ”Humans mistreating cows in intensive concentration camps (intensive farming) cause 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions (and the rest by other means)” instead. Cows are quite innocent.

    For the rest, very interesting post. I don’t like to eat meat, so it’s not something I would eat; but could be good for a sustainable meat eating of those who like eating animals.

  • http://mickmurillo.com Mick Murillo

    Now I understand why when I’m in the countryside, and make my necesities outdoors… the dogs around (who are omnivore) love to eat it. They prefer my poop to their compound feed: poop’s composition is closer to the meat they love than the feed you can buy them.

  • http://mickmurillo.com Mick Murillo

    Now I understand why when I’m in the countryside, and make my necesities outdoors… the dogs around (who are omnivore) love to eat it. They prefer my poop to their compound feed: poop’s composition is closer to the meat they love than the feed you can buy them.

  • Gnymel

    Sounds like a solution for long time staying on space…

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  • Bnlgeekychic

    I think this right here is probably a good reason for me to become a vegetarian. lol

  • Kharol Go

    All right! Dont have to waste my dogs poop anymore :D

  • Mark

    does that make it vegetarian??

  • Mark

    does that make it vegetarian?? lol

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  • Anonymous

    Dude. soylent green.

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  • bob

    you are cool i think you  will stop hunger

  • bob

    you are cool i think you  will stop hunger

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERWW3M2U6PDZNGNIKDPKN342OU Tony

    You eat it.

  • Hyper

    Wow. This is REALLY WILD! I agree with VEIT. So would Asian peoples shit be sweet and fluffy and westerners really “poopy and corny”? Hmmmm I would try it, but I would want to see a pic of the guy or girls who did the “shitty turd”. That might be a real turn on! LoL. Like if the person (or persons) who did the shit where very attractive to me, I could really be turned on by eating theie “recycled shit”! LoL. But if they had horrible diet or they just did not turn me on physically or Ohh, what about getting shit recycled from any one who has HIV or AIDs or HEP or some bad disease?? Eating some ones recycled shit from healthy or vegatarians or attractive people would really turn me on. Like I think to eat recycled shit from Asian (JAPAN :-) etc, Mexican, Arab and Indian people would be a real turn on! LoL

  • Hyper

    Knowing that it is coming from Japan, that would be very exciting. The people from japan are very gorgeous and attractive.

  • Hyper

    It would BE AWESOME to eat their POOP from people from Japan, the guys are so sexy and attractive with gorgeous black hair.

  • Hyper

    This makes complete logical and naural and scientific scense. Crap is supposted to go back to the earth as fertilizer, yet westerners burn it. Wasting MORE energy and breaking the chain of nature and robbing the earth of her nutrients that should be going back to the earth each time some one “lays a turd” LoL. “Let them eat poop” as the old phrase goes. At best here the “crap” will be going back into peoples stomachs to feed them again instead if it being burned like they do in the west. Really incredible. I would have no trouble eating it…as long as I knew where it coming from….from atractive beautiful gorgeous people of Japan….no problem! LoL.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/Starwaster Kevin Kelly

    What about civet poop? Then you can have caffeinated meat…

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  • Brainwave

    The Japanese have it together on this.  Ask any Japanese person why they can’t bring themselves to whistle at night (quiet at night, loud whistle disturbs others). Or why they shouldn’t trim their nails after dusk as well. Or perhaps why they don’t hum or whistle in public (again, a vane disturbance). Maybey too, why they wish not to give or receive hugs or shake hands (mostly to respect personal space but a popular way to avoid transfering anything). And more beautifully, placing hand over mouth during laughter. I imagine I don’t have to tell you that it’s all about being respectful.

    Now, ask yourself why you’ve been raised to believe ”poop” is gross, smelly, messy, and yeah, even ugly(raw=unsanitary, hell to clean up, hard smell to ignore).

    Could it simply be that we just didn’t know then what we know now? And like many such things, we apply the best understanding possible.

    In the west, we place concern on our own geologically developed ways of life, like Santa Clause (be good all year, and a magical man will reward us with gifts), chew with your mouth closed, shake hands to be polite, whistle while you work, hum while you shop and so on.

    Enough said. I’ll choose it when it hits the menu. The lessons of history and nature are trustworthy enough I think. 

     

  • …

    O_O

    Enough said.

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  • Jimvadney

    This gives a hole new meaning to the saying “eat shit and die!”

  • Barney Frank

    ”
     Cows supposedly cause around 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions.”

    Dumbass!  If you don’t eat the cows, they are going to cause the methane levels in the atmosphere to elevate out of control, then some moron smoker will light a match and   **POOF** it’s December 21, 2012.  

  • http://twitter.com/legoman6986 Christian Kenny

    Either way, no water on the earth is destroyed or created, you could be drinking water that used to be someone’s piss, or in someone’s poop. You’re already doing the gross part, you just don’t realize it.

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  • Phil Landsberg

    most logical side dish is Corn – They can extract THAT from the poop, too!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kristine.corriveau Kristine Corriveau

    totally disgusting I am so glad I don’t eat Japanese food and I never will. even if this is a hoax it makes me sick

  • pierre poutine

    Because that certainly is an option in Tokyo. It isn’t Ohio that we’re talking about.

  • Dsiwarper

    wat

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