Posted on 06/17/2011 8:12:00 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
The meatpacking industry causes 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to the release of methane from animals. The livestock industry also consumes huge amounts of feed and water in relation to the amount of meat that it yields, and many find the industry to be inhumane and cruel to animals. These factors alone are reason enough for vegetarians to replace their meat intake with vegetable proteins and legumes. But Ikeda, a scientist at the Environmental Assessment Center in Okayama, sought to further the field of alternative proteins by recycling a form of protein-rich waste : sewage mud.
“Sewage mud” is exactly what you think it is – poop. Ikeda’s process begins by extracting protein and lipids from the “mud.” The lipids are then combined with a reaction enhancer, then whipped into “meat” in an exploder. Ikeda then makes the poop more savory, by adding soya and steak sauce.
Currently, the price of the poop burgers are 10-20 times that of regular meat, due to the cost of research, but he feels they will even out in a few years. He admits that “some people” may have a psychological aversion to eating artificial meat made of their own poop at first, but thinks many would be open to personally completing the food chain. He also notes that the burgers are extremely low in fat.
(insert Hardees joke here)
Any bets on how quickly this stuff finds it way into school lunches? My vote is on LA School District being the first....
Later too.
Judging by the poll....most people have problems with a Big Mac before a turd burger...
Iwsn’t this the same technique that gave rise to “Mad Cow Disease”?
Just goes to show you how important religion is to people.
Seriously, these people are advocating eating their own poop in support of their religion!
Any other religion that advocated something similar would be seen as completely ridiculous and fanatical.
I say Berkeley. More liberal nutjobs there.
Soylent Green!
My dog used to eat his own poop.
Who’d have thought he was a trend setter!
I have no problem with this, let them eat s_ _ t!
reminds me of all "green" leftard ideas.expensive and full of crap.
How about as an offset to the livestock all the environmentalists kill themselves.
I shudder to imagine what is the accompanying beverage.
I have no problem with this, let them eat s_ _ t!
Ditto!
It’s missing the standard “Coexist” sticker. And the “Hate Is Not A Family Value” one.
These just write themselves ..... I always knew the libs were full of poop, but I always thought figuratively. Who knew it actually was literally?
Explains a lot really.....
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