This invention
could save the world from hunger and too much wastes.
Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda
from the Okayama Laboratory certainly doesn't believe in human waste. He thinks
that's perfectly good protein you're sending out to sea, and he's found a way
to extract it, mix it with steak sauce and create a fecal feast fit for a king.
And despite the downside of having to add soya to bind it all together, Prof
Ikeda thinks there's no reason why we shouldn't all tuck into his turd burgers.
Why would he even think of it, you
might ask. Because Tokyo Sewage asked him to. Tokyo is swimming in sewage mud,
it seems, and there's only one way it can save itself and that's eat it.
Prof Ikeda found the mud was loaded
with protein due to the high bacteria content. Combine it with reaction
enhancer and put it in a magical machine called an "exploder" and
artificial steak comes out the other end.
According to Digital Trends, it's
63 percent protein, 25 percent carbohydrates, 3 percent lipids and 9 percent
minerals. It's colored red so you don't know it's poo.
"Initial tests have people
saying it even tastes like beef," Digital Trends reports.
Prof Ikeda and his colleagues say it's the perfect solution
for reducing waste and emissions from flatulent cows. Which is understandable,
because if someone told you that Whopper you just ate was actually made from
yesterday's leftover feces, you'd probably be too traumatized to masticate meat
ever again.
Of course, there's a hitch -
besides the fact it's made from poo and soya. The cost of producing Prof
Ikeda's stinky steaks at the moment is about "10 to 20 times" the
price of carving it off a cow.
Leave it to the fast food chains to
work out the economics. You can't argue the mass production side of the
equation is already sorted...
Source: http://www.foxnews.com
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