Japanese Researcher turns Human Feces into an Edible Burger

[Guild McCommunist]

I agree with this. Vegetarians normally stand to make a point, eating food inspired by and designed to get the closest to the death and consumption of animals just seems hypocritical to the worst degree.

Not really. As long as you don't eat meat you make your point. You're effectively boycotting the meat industry and what it stands for and boycotting whatever you find ethically wrong with it. I don't really see anything hypocritical about it. If I said "MEAT IS MURDER" and threw red paint on people after I had a nice meal at McDonald's that'd be hypocritical.

 

[notmeanymore]

Time to take "eat shit and die" more literally.

I think I'd be one of those brave souls to try it first.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

@AGLCB, Yeah, I know a couple of people like that, but I don't really count them as veggies, more herbivores. That's your natural diet and not a choice.

@Guild. Thanks for the honesty. The only answer I've had before is lack of choice, which seeing as I can cook sounds like complete BS.

Just think, those guys have already had to get over the fact they drink their own piss, sweat, and the moisture from the air they breath.

Spoiler

I don't see a problem there.

Lol, but I was basically saying that if it works well, it will be accepted there first. And normal people will get over it in the long run. Especially when you think there's probably not an atom you've ever eaten that hasn't being something else's poo a few times. And every drop of water you drink has probably being through a lot of human bladders by now, let alone the rest of life.

 

[Raika]

GODDAMMIT what the fuck did I just watch? It literally cringed IRL when the professor dude ate the burger.

 

[NiGHtS]

Vege ftw !

 

[Sausage Head]

mcdonalds did it first

 

[Fat D]

I think we have an Ig-Nobel prize winner right here.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

I was wondering how long it would take for this news to hit GBAtemp.
Two pages in and all the best jokes have been told.....mostly by Veho....

Of all the things that could be done with fecal matter, I seriously doubt "Food" would have been my application of it.

 

[granville]

I don't eat meat or any fake kind of meat. This story makes me very glad i don't. I'll get by on cheese and dairy. Until they start making THAT out of shit too that is.

I'm pro-enviro and all, but this takes recycling WAY too far imo. This will bring new meaning to "this food tastes like shit".

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Of all the things that could be done with fecal matter, I seriously doubt "Food" would have been my application of it.

But you're a canid, I thought that would be your first idea TBH.

EDIT:Semantics fail.

 

[firetempest]

Gives new meaning to the phrase eat shit. *snip Enough of the bad puns.

 

[whoomph]

This thread has prompted me to watch 'Soylent Green' for the first time in years. Can't think why

 

[granville]

I guess a few good questions are in order-

1- who is going to buy a "Morning Star Shit Burger" when they see it instores?
2- when listing the ingredients, what will the shit be called? Shit? Stool protein? Homosapien digest? MBS (might be shit)? Brown #5?
3- will ANYONE who actually has some semblance of sanity willingly eat this stuff knowing exactly what it is?

 

[whoomph]

2- when listing the ingredients, what will the shit be called? Shit? Stool protein? Homosapien digest? MBS (might be shit)?

Soylent Brown?

 

[lordrand11]

And just like that I'm now a vegetarian.

But this is a burger for vegetarians. You'd probably enjoy it. I also wonder if the people who ate it for "science" knew what it was before the big bite.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

I wonder what sort of pretty name will be given to this "meat" to make it more palatable.

 

[The Catboy]

And just like that I'm now a vegetarian.

But this is a burger for vegetarians. You'd probably enjoy it. I also wonder if the people who ate it for "science" knew what it was before the big bite.

That was more of a joke than a serious statement, I am pretty already a vegetation, but that's not by my choice nor really on topic.

 

[chris888222]

Wait... I really can't believe it.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

I guess a few good questions are in order-

1- who is going to buy a "Morning Star Shit Burger" when they see it instores? Not me, I'm waiting for the cultured muscle grown in vats. But my only problem with meat is factory/intensive farming.
2- when listing the ingredients, what will the shit be called? Shit? Stool protein? Homosapien digest? MBS (might be shit)? Brown #5?Probably something along the lines of Reconstituted Hominid Protein
3- will ANYONE who actually has some semblance of sanity willingly eat this stuff knowing exactly what it is?I'd have a go. And given the right encouragement I'd eat it all the time. Like say offer me a seat on the first trip to Mars

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Soylent Brown is people!!! (poop)