A New Alternative For Meat?
Japanese scientist makes a delicious burger out of human excrement. Such was the headline of the Daily Mail in June 2011. The article indulged in the disgusting details of this new food source.
All started when Professor Ikeda was asked to solve the problem of Tokyo’s ever-growing sewerage problem, he devised a way to convert it to meat. He extracts the proteins from the sewerage sludge, turns it red by using food coloring, and boosts the flavor with soy.
This artificial meat boasts 63% protein, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids, and 9% minerals. Not bad!
Totally plausible, is it? Amazingly, The Guardian newspaper in the UK, the International Business Times, Digital Trends, and LA Weekly, all fell for the hoax and reported accordingly, and nobody stopped to verify the facts.
Nobody sought a personal interview with Professor Ikeda; why should they when Youtube is loaded with reliable information?
No one questioned the science; is it possible at all to convert raw sewage into a safe, edible protein?
It does not happen every day that several newspapers are taken for the same ride.
The Article in the Daily Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2004791/Japanese-scientist-makes-delicious-burger--human-EXCREMENT.html
Comments (55)
Octoberfest(pew), as now they can generate extra income.
right, they must have been in a panic when the news first broke.
No, it slipped out before I could stop it.
I'm too scare to open my mouth after reading this. Mind you, I still don't see how five newspapers could have fallen for it. There must have been a few red faces.
One of the newspaper articles said very expensive. Quoting Professor Ikeda as saying it will become cheaper when the research cost have been recovered.
perhaps to power our ancient internal combustion engines
might be a better way to go with this.
Just think of how much pressure it would have taken of our vegetable resources if only it was true.
I mean if they can recycle sewerage water, why not the proteins?
These English are crazy.
Be careful about that, we may end up as pet food before the end of the century. That will really be taking recycling to a new level.
Yep some guy here planned to manufacture diesel from sunflower oil, I don't know how far he got.
That is exactly what it is, but why did all the newspapers (5 that I know of) fall for it. It is unthinkable.
When I was younger we claimed that mosquitoes will die of alcohol poisoning if they bite us when we went camping, but we were bitten just the same.
I don't know, from what I heard, methane burns very clean.
Sorry! I had got so deep into looking at other things on YouTube.
I suppose you're going to tell me next that the wine was recycled after you drank the beer.
No problem. Seen any good ones?
It is appalling. When you buy stake mince, you expect just that. Lately, they warn you on the package that it may contain traces of other meats. Don't they clean the machine any more?
Well, then take off your shoe. I'll drink it out there.
I'm upset with you, Every time you get upset with me, you run back to your husband.
Thanks for dropping in.
Then you are in good company. My heart is like a mini-bus taxi. There is always place for one more.
Hi Catfoot