Video: Japanese Scientist Makes (And Eats) Poop Burger

Well. Here's something...different. A Japanese scientist has developed an alternative meat source, made out of soy protein, steak sauce, and human excrement. Yes, that's right: poop. Poop mixed with seasoning and squeezed out, slowly, graphically, through a giant tubular press. Oh, and it's not cheap, either: developer Mitsuyuki Ikeda says "at the moment, our 'artificial meat' is 10-20 times more expensive than normal meat." But it is low-fat! And if you're one day lucky enough to bribe your way into one of the elite, post-apocalyptic underground bunker colonies, you can look forward to violently shivving your bunker-mate for this delicacy. Thank you, Japan!

Here's the video, which, while technically safe for work, we encourage you to watch at your own risk as Ikeda and his pals enthusiastically eat their turd burgers. Requisite spoiler alert: These burgers are made from people!

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By Jamie Feldmar in Food on June 16, 2011 4:42 PM

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haute_cuisiine

The food in this place is absolute shit, but it is exquisitely cooked.

Thierry Taule

IF WE WERE STARVING AND LACKING RESOURCES THEN YOU WOULD SHUT UP AND EAT IT AND NOT COMPLAIN.

conspiracymedia

japan gone Mad .Hemp is the answer to world hunger.

uptownpunisher

We probably are eating stuff close to this without knowing.

Sam

If in the future these poop burgers became official and replaced the real meat, I will suicide.

TheRealCannibal

This is wayyy better than vegan food. Vegans, get happy about this.

Mya Lynn Correa

thats just wrong! how r they going to charge 10 to 0 for something they got for free what the hell....o yea and its really gross.

matteus

Really? At least it's more nutritious than the pink slime they feed us in the US.

Guest

2 nerds, 1 cup?

Smith Corona

Remind me - don't we get sick from eating shit? That's real, right, and not just something your mom says?

FU Boy

That's not necessarily true. Eating your own (although gross) won't cause you to be sick. You can eat another person's if you have compatable digestive systems, which happens naturally after about a year of living together.

It's kind of like undercooked meat or chicken, really.

Guest

sorry, but there's just no way this is "like undercooked meat or chicken", REALLY.

meat and chicken, cooked or not, is, for the most part, muscle - protein, the end product of the metabolization of amino acids and tissue growth by another animal. shit, on the other hand, is the OTHER end of the metabolic cycle - the fed-upon end matter after all productive components have been digested. it is indole and scatole and the remnants of whatever hasn't been used by the body.

i think this is disgusting, i'm perplexed.

FU Boy

S'ok - many people do consider it disgusting. I'm not about to start chowing down, but you are wrong.

From the Almighty Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

"Feces serve not only as a basic food, but also a supplement to the usual diet of some animals."

Guest

I'll concede to being wrong about its caloric (not nutritional) value, and that it does function as food for some animals.

however, i'd still argue that humans are not to be among them:

"The perceived bad odor of feces has been hypothesized to be a deterrent for humans, as consumption or touching it may result in sickness or infection.[4] Of course, human perception of the odor is a subjective matter; an animal that eats feces may be attracted to its odor."