It takes the saying waste not, want not, to a whole new level.

A Japanese scientist has developed a 'meat' burger made out of human excrement.

Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, came up with the novel approach to number ones after Tokyo Sewage asked him to come up with a way of using up the city's waste.

Flushed with success? Mitsuyuki Ikeda with his edible excrement concoction
Mr Ikeda found that the poo which filled up the system was packed with protein because of all the bacteria.

His research team extracted the proteins to create an artificial steak, which is turned red with food colouring and flavoured with soy.

In a YouTube video posted recently he explained: 'We add reaction enhancer and put it in the exploder to produce the artificial meat.'

It is made up of 63 per cent protein, 25 per cent carbohydrates, three per cent lipids and nine per cent minerals.

But how has it gone down with the public? Well the team claims that in initial tests people reported it was delicious and tasted like beef.

And despite its unusual origins, the scientists argue that the new patties are far kinder to the environment as cattle create such a huge amount of greenhouse gas emissions.

The 'meat' is currently 10 to 20 times more expensive that your average beef burger due to research costs, however Professor Ikeda hopes to bring costs down over time.

He added that the 'green' credentials of the poo pate would help consumers to overcome any 'psychological barriers' they might have.

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That is disgusting, now i have to second guess every burger patty i eat. I guess this is part of the push to turn people into vegetarians.

disgusting.

I mean, seriously though, need you post this?

Ileke-IdI:

disgusting.

I mean, seriously though, need you post this?

It is frikking amazing. If he can make it economical, then it would be a great breakthrough.

Isn't it better to directly process the poop into a food source rather than using the poop as fertilizer for crops, which you then feed to cows (which you then eat)?

Direct conversion is a lot more environmentally friendly. . . less pressure on the environment for every pound of protein you want to produce.

Heck, you don't have to eat it directly yourself, you can use it as dog food or fish feed if you like (if he handles the poor economics, that is)

ekt_bear:

It is frikking amazing. If he can make it economical, then it would be a great breakthrough.

Isn't it better to directly process the poop into a food source rather than using the poop as fertilizer for crops, which you then feed to cows (which you then eat)?

Direct conversion is a lot more environmentally friendly. . . less pressure on the environment for every pound of protein you want to produce.

Heck, you don't have to eat it directly yourself, you can use it as dog food or fish feed if you like (if he handles the poor economics, that is)

Break through for who?

Have you gone to Ondo recently (this is me indirectly asking you how many leaves of ganja you might have  smoked).

Who exactly will eat anything that has once been pushed out of the anus, converted or not? Not to talk of the disgusting nature of this, but should we ignore the side effects it might bring just because it's "environmentally friendly"?

Have the same cows been genetically stable since we started feeding them foods that were originally abnormal in their food diets (such as corn, etc)? I'd rather the cow eat the converted poop than have it directly consumed by me.

BTW, How do we decide on whose poop food will be synthesized? People with/out genetic abnormalities such as HIV/AIDs, Cancer etc or just "healthy" humans like you and I?

This is like licking up your vomit.

LWKMD .It seems the recent earthquake must have affected the Japanese psychologically to the extent that they now want to eat poop.

naaahhhhh mate am alright

Why! Burger Poop, No be small thing. It has even gone on trial.

Now, this is totally disgusting, ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

190:

I LOVE IT    

why wnt u love it! So disgusting japanese cn be

if the developed countries can make portable drinking water from treated sewage. they can do the same for food too.

odiaero:

Oh shi****t, why is this on the front page?

so that you'll know what you may be getting on your future trips to mcdonalds, burger king et al
McDonalds- para pam pam pam. . . i'm lovin' it

Make him go Naija go gather plenty shi.t from Naija. I guess we'll even sell for a fairly moderate price. What I can't guarantee though is that most Naija Poop na starch/carb full am with little protein (little  or largely no beef content)so His purpose might be a bit , emmmm, well

These japanese sef, from grillinghuman foetus for food now to poop?

I beg i no fit shout jor!

lost my appetite

This world is goin gaga!!!

This sh1t can't be right.

Gaddem! What is the world turning to?

This is shit!!!
Very soon they will start importing this shit to us.
And I heard that ice creams are now made from breast milk in UK.

soon we can start selling our sh1t

anoda poison 2 mankind.

Na wa o!! This is disgusting,very soon they will tell us that fart should now be used to replace oxygen,you know,save the world oxygen and prevent the wastage of fart,yeye japanese people,nonsense.

Processed poo, i will like to taste it.

from now on i am staying away from meat burger.

As long as it tastes good!!

Thanks but no thanks!!

At least, the igbo abusive terminology, "rie' nshi" (eat poo) will no longer be a verbal insult.

gosh, lost me appetite.

it is coming to a burger joint near you

i reject it amen.

It's a hoax. But actually, I can't wait to get my hands on a huge turd burger. Geez, I'm salivating.