let them eat shit!
And just hope they die!
From the unlikliest of sources.
Only the Japanese would invest money in research trying to figure out a way to make hamburgers out of shit.
Friday 17 Jun 2011
Can Soylent Green be that far behind?
SOYLENT GREEN IS DIARRHEA!!
Soylent Brown?
Hell, dogs have been eating shit since they were domesticated.
“I admit that few people would be keen to eat it…”
Now, that’s an understatement.
@BobG – Read an arctic exploration story once where the explorers had to take a stick along with them when they took a dump…to fight off the sled dogs who were a bit too impatient to wait for the dump to be, well, dumped.
I don’t think I ever thought I’d see something that would make me prefer the idea of soylent green.
Devil’s advocate: people eat animals who have eaten all sorts of garbage including poop, and had their digestive systems process that mess to nourish said boar, rodent, and catfish (or other bottom feeder like oyster). And poop has served as fertilizer for many a food garden. We’re even the only species to drink milk from another species, and into adulthood no less. We’d look at someone who went to his neighbor’s house to daily suckle her for breakfast as totally weird, but we’ll dump a cup of an ugly animal’s milk into a cereal bowl no problem.
This machine takes the protein so far from the sewage mud state, after so many different distilling processes, that as for “eating poop,” well you may be eating poop when you eat that apple as much as when you eat this artificial meat source.
They use artificial flavoring to put taste back into fast food hamburger, and it’s no fun to watch how they process chicken nuggets. We’ve already taken highly processed food so far from origin that this is just one more processing way.
I’ve eaten everything from White Castle sliders to blood sausage to head cheese and all the weird freaking offal that’s in those things, so who am I to make fun of that nation for finding a strange yet intelligent way to get its protein requirement?
That all being said, you taste some when it comes out, let me know what you think. Then I’ll bite.
Oh, p.s.: belated April Fool’s!
I suspect my immersion in Japanese culture will provide relief to all here.
See that dainty artificial hand Professor Ikeda uses to guide us through his process? By custom that implies that nowhere along the way is this shit ever touched by human hands.