A documentary worth watching imo. Anyhow I wouldn't want to eat this. I am all for industrial food production but this is ridiculous. I don't think I could get my mind over the fact that it was at some point poop. :/

Triscuit

United States722 Posts

June 17 2011 21:12 GMT

#164

As long as it is safe and tastes alright, why not? I wouldn't entirely replace meat but it seems like a healthier alternative to red meat. I would worry about the presence of prions in the feces though.

Ahahaha... I love how the labels say "SHIT BURGER" on them. This can't be real.

jarrydesque

584 Posts

June 17 2011 21:13 GMT

#165

I can't believe that pointy hand thing. WTF?! Damn that made me laugh.

No thank you. I'll pass on the burgers.

Oh and as for "Japans research":

~]NSFW[~
+ Show Spoiler +

Already discovered in Africa

turamn

United States1374 Posts

June 17 2011 21:17 GMT

#166

Am I starving? Then yeah, I'll eat the turd burger...does it taste good? Then, yeah, I'll eat the turd burger...infact...just gimme one now, I'll eat it.

StarBrift

Sweden1761 Posts

June 17 2011 21:20 GMT

#167

We allready drink refined piss so why not eat refined shit? That being said I still have huge psychological problems with this.

PhiliBiRD

United States2643 Posts

June 17 2011 21:22 GMT

#168

idk if i could eat it,

but i say we should make up a bunch of steaks and give em to africa. just dont tell them! wont they dont know wont hurt em and im sure they will enjoy some steak :-)

Lmui

Canada6210 Posts

June 17 2011 21:24 GMT

#169

Water I'm kind of okay with since as long as you filter it out it's fine but it's shit. I'd much rather use the said waste to grow plants with rather than actually eat it filtered/reprocessed. I can't think of anything that would make me feel comfortable eating that stuff.

Bleak

Turkey3059 Posts

June 17 2011 21:26 GMT

#170

Hell no, I would eat cheese or whatever I can get proteins from. Noone can make me eat shit.

Joking aside, if it is perfectly safe health-wise and it doesn't taste too unnatural or dirty, I could perhaps eat it. Still, the psychological effect will be a big problem.

leser

Croatia239 Posts

June 17 2011 21:26 GMT

#171

when hunger strikes, people will eat anything. let's hope it never strikes, or if it does that people find cheaper ways of recycling our shit.

Z3kk

4099 Posts

June 17 2011 21:28 GMT

#172

Heck no...I'd only eat it as a last resort.

This sounds uncannily similar to Biomeat though... :o

aike

United States1629 Posts

June 17 2011 21:29 GMT

#173

Did you guys know that a common ingredient in energy drinks "Taurine" is actually from Bull piss? (tauren + urine = taurine)... true story. Think about that before you discredit this idea

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

June 17 2011 21:30 GMT

#174

well... I guess if it is between starving and this, i would eat it. im shocked at how much protein is in this stuff.

Exal

Denmark35 Posts

June 17 2011 21:31 GMT

#175

Thing is no one will able to distinguish between "poop"meat and normal meat as long as the technology is perfected, basicly what they are doing is growing meat from the leftover proteins that they can find in poop. In principle it's exactly the same as making an animal synthesize proteins to create meat, but instead we just do it in a lab setting.

I don't really see why people are going crazy over this, this technology goes a long way in solving world hunger.

Meta

United States6225 Posts

June 17 2011 21:31 GMT

#176

Is this a joke?
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Seems pretty ridiculous to me.

Deja Thoris

South Africa646 Posts

June 17 2011 21:33 GMT

#177

Dunno, like others said, water is "recycled" plenty and we don't seem to mind that.

If we saw where a lot of our food came from shit burgers would look pretty tame in comparison. All those hairy pig snouts, ball sacks and stuff that goes into processed meat can't be worse for us than this stuff. A lot of stuff farm animals eat is made from the mashed up gore that is left over from processing plants and that eventually ends up on our plates too.

Having said all that, they better hire one hell of a PR company.

QuanticHawk

United States32041 Posts

June 17 2011 21:34 GMT

#178

There is no way i'd eat this shit. Uggggggggggklajsdf;l k;lwkasdf

Patriot.dlk

Sweden5462 Posts

June 17 2011 21:34 GMT

#179

it's repulsing but with a little help of research from Kurt Levin and others we could perhaps be turned around.

Very cool research

DIjim

England17 Posts

June 17 2011 21:36 GMT

#180

I find it really hard to take this seriously. That youtube video is funny though, "SHIT BURGER"
I don't think this would be very practical though, faeces would only contain a tiny amount of protein so 1 turd burger would take a lot of faeces to create.
I definitely could not eat one if I was told what it was.