Steak Made from Human Excrement: Is It Safe?

[Evo]

Ok, I understand that they are extracting "basic food elements" from sewage, but...

The Japanese researchers isolated proteins from bacteria in sewage. The poop-meat concoction is prepared by extracting the basic elements of food — protein, carbohydrates and fats — and recombining them.

The meat is made from 63 percent proteins, 25 percent carbohydrates, 3 percent lipids and 9 percent minerals, according to Digital Trends. Soy protein is added to the mix to increase the flavor, and food coloring is used to make the product appear red.

The researchers came up with the idea after Tokyo Sewage asked them to figure out a use for the abundance of sewage in mud, Digital Trends says.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110618/sc_livescience/steakmadefromhumanexcrementisitsafe;_ylt=AnhzfLWWuh5k4DsbmDev5p6b.HQA;_ylu=X3oDMTQ2dnRuYml0BGFzc2V0A2xpdmVzY2llbmNlLzIwMTEwNjE4L3N0ZWFrbWFkZWZyb21odW1hbmV4Y3JlbWVudGlzaXRzYWZlBGNjb2RlA3RvcGdtcHRvcDIwMHBvb2wEY3BvcwM4BHBvcwM4BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDc3RlYWttYWRlZnJv

 

[Pengwuino]

Yah I'm not clicking that link.

 

[dlgoff]

Yah I'm not clicking that link.

Me either.

Where do you find this stuff Evo?

Edit: Oh wait. It's Yahoo.

 

[WannabeNewton]

Whatever ounce of hope I had for humanity has been stripped.

 

[Evo]

Me either.

Where do you find this stuff Evo?

Edit: Oh wait. It's Yahoo.

It's Livescience.

 

[Hurkyl]

Soylent brown?

Oh wait they make it red. So Soylent red?

 

[Evo]

Soylent brown?

Oh wait they make it red. So Soylent red?

It's poople!

 

[dlgoff]

OMG. I clicked. First line:

The mere idea is stomach-churning: creating food from human feces.

Well on second thought, it could be worse. I once was was so thirsty when trying to live off the land (much younger then) that I almost drank water (?) from a cows hoof print.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's poople!

Hahahahahahaha! Best one ever!

 

[Newai]

Might make a fortune from the cookbook.

Or not.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Something happens to all that poop we produce. Where did you think it went?

 

[Proton Soup]

i thought it fed the mutants in the sewers

 

[Pengwuino]

This kinda stuff makes me wonder why everyone is so down on eating horse meat. Obviously we're looking at much weirder things to eat!

 

[zoobyshoe]

This kinda stuff makes me wonder why everyone is so down on eating horse meat. Obviously we're looking at much weirder things to eat!

How do you know everyone is down on eating horse meat? I, personally, have never been offered any to refuse.

 

[Pengwuino]

How do you know everyone is down on eating horse meat? I, personally, have never been offered any to refuse.

Exactly.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Exactly.

But why should anyone be offered horse when cows are so much easier to raise? Horses are touchy and a lot more nimble.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So much for eating rare steaks.

 

[Pengwuino]

But why should anyone be offered horse when cows are so much easier to raise? Horses are touchy and a lot more nimble.

Well, people don't just eat the easiest to raise foods :)

All of a sudden I have a craving for shark meat.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

All of a sudden I have a craving for shark meat.

From what I understand, you get a lot of shark meat in a McDonald's fish fillet sandwich.

They snag tons of sharks when fishing for tuna.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Shark is very tasty. I'd put thresher shark up there with swordfish for flavor.

 

[Evo]

Shark is very tasty. I'd put thresher shark up there with swordfish for flavor.

Shark does taste like swordfish, I've had swordfish more than shark, but both numerous times.

I saw on tv that swordfish should not be eaten due to the high mercury content.

Do not eat Shark, Swordfish, King Mackerel, or Tilefish because they contain high levels of mercury.

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm

I'm guilty of eating all.

I guess poop steak is lower in mercury?

 

[Pengwuino]

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm

I'm not a young child or pregnant woman; I'll BBQ as many dolphins and sharks as I feel like thank you very much

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wonder what penguin tastes like? I should think the Tierra Del Fuegans must have had to eat a penguin now and then. It's a bleak place.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm really wondering what the point of poop steak could be. Is the idea to get rid of poop? Or is it to make a cheap edible? It sounds to me like there's a lot of processing to it, so I wonder if it could really be that much cheaper than something else that would be vastly more appetizing.

 

[Pythagorean]

From what I understand, you get a lot of shark meat in a McDonald's fish fillet sandwich.

They snag tons of sharks when fishing for tuna.

naw, they don't use tuna in mcdonalds fillet-o-fish. Pollock is generally the most common commercial fish resource for prepared foods (frozen fish n chips or imitation crab, for instance). McDonald's supplements with another popular commercial fish: hoki.

http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do?itemID=5926

I've never seen hoki before, but I've fished pollock on a longlining boat. Soft-bellied fish, gets softer fast post-mortem. Cheap (I owed the skipper after that season) and slimy little bastards.

Never longlined again after that trip. Seining for salmon and hering is much more gratifying. Plus, I don't like playing with hundreds of hooks every night that far from town; call me risk adverse.

 

[zoobyshoe]

naw, they don't use tuna in mcdonalds fillet-o-fish. Pollock is generally the most common commercial fish resource for prepared foods (frozen fish n chips or imitation crab, for instance). McDonald's supplements with another popular commercial fish: hoki.

http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do?itemID=5926

Modern Marvels has an episode about the enormous "floating fish factories" that catch, process, and freeze all those pollock for McDonald's. They sort the fish by hand at a couple points, so sharks and other unwanted fish wouldn't get mixed in, you're right.

 

[chiro]

You guys and girls do know how aspartame is made don't you?

 

[OmCheeto]

You guys and girls do know how aspartame is made don't you?

No.

This isn't another Wiener joke is it?

 

[chiro]

No.

This isn't another Wiener joke is it?

No I am being serious.



Upon looking at some related results, it appears other substances are created in the same sort of way with other organisms, but I can't comment on that since any comment would be pure speculation and unjustified.

 

[zoobyshoe]

No I am being serious.



Upon looking at some related results, it appears other substances are created in the same sort of way with other organisms, but I can't comment on that since any comment would be pure speculation and unjustified.

Hmmm. That guy gets a lot of information about the world from "reading between the lines" of episodes of the Simpsons, don't you think?

I have always thought of the byproducts of bacteria as that: byproducts. To start calling any of them "poop" is to put an unnecessarily unpleasant spin on them. The alcohol industry might have to be exposed as selling "bacteria pee", and the bread industry might have to confess that bread contains a large amount of "yeast farts".

 

[Pythagorean]

Mmmm yeast farts are tasty

 

[zoobyshoe]

Well, they make bread what it is. But googling I find that yeast aren't bacteria; more like fungi. Perhaps bacteria do "poop" in the conventional sense. I'm not sure.

 

[Pythagorean]

Well, they make bread what it is. But googling I find that yeast aren't bacteria; more like fungi. Perhaps bacteria do "poop" in the conventional sense. I'm not sure.

Yeah, yeast cells are eukaryotes like our cells are, and it's definitely waste from their metabolism (just like our cells have) but I would say our digestion is more of an emergent property of this micro-digestion than the micro-digestion itself. And waste glands (in our armpits for instance) would also be part of the same emergent waste system. Our lymph nodes and kidneys absorb a lot of waste. So it's a more general case, I think in which micro-digestion is related to macro-digestion.

Some say the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes ('bacteria') is that eukaryotes are the result of bacteria eating other bacteria (or archaea), but then making them into an 'organelle' rather than digesting them. (see the endosimbiotic theory of mitochondria, for instance). I don't think there's a macro-organism analogue to that.

 

[drizzle]

I just can't believe that I made it to the THIRD page!

Thread dismissed. Unless you people offer a serious BBQ penguin steaks [and by serious I mean find me some active fresh [STRIKE]Pengwuino[/STRIKE] penguin to eat].

 

[OmCheeto]

Hmmm. That guy gets a lot of information about the world from "reading between the lines" of episodes of the Simpsons, don't you think?

I have always thought of the byproducts of bacteria as that: byproducts. To start calling any of them "poop" is to put an unnecessarily unpleasant spin on them. The alcohol industry might have to be exposed as selling "bacteria pee", and the bread industry might have to confess that bread contains a large amount of "yeast farts".

And I always thought people were talking metaphorically when discussing American beer. It is piss.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/American_Beer" , often confused with either Bat's urine or water, is a low-alcohol beverage actually enjoyed by many Americans and Canadian children. Canadians will often speak of the low alcohol content of American Beer, because it does not cause fun side-effects such as blindness and gonourrhea like Canadian Beer. There is also a disputed difference between the methods of detecting alcohol in each country. When faced with this fact, Canadians will either run away or turn into a purple moose.

Many American beers are not in fact beer at all, but rather beeroids.

I refuse to click on Evo's link, but if someone has an electron microscope image of a bacteria pooping a steak, that would be interesting to see.