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Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage

Posted by samzenpus on from the I'm-going-to-need-another-slice-of-cheese dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hold on to your hamburgers — Japanese scientist Mitsyuki Ikeda at the Environmental Assessment Center in Okayama has invented an artificial meat substitute made from human feces. The unseemly meal is made by extracting protein and lipids from 'sewage mud.' The lipids are then combined with a reaction enhancer and whipped into 'meat' in an exploder. Ikeda makes the 'meat' more palatable by adding things like soy protein."

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  1. Re:um... by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, this is simply soylent brown.

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  2. This is a huge deal for space travel by Tropico · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Recycling nutrients for space travel is essential. Astronauts already drink water that is extracting from human urine. Extracting proteins and lipids from human waste could be just as important.

  3. You got trolled by freefrag · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Googling the researcher's name and his institution only brings up this story. Looks like you someone successfully trolled slashdot.

  4. Re:Mmmm by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, they're going to run into real trouble here, McDonald's has a patent on this.

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  5. Re:someone will eat it by Larryish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow.

    Starving masses in Africa eating our bourgeois American white-people feces.

    That would be a total PR shit storm.