Steak made from human poop passes taste test Would you eat a steak made from human sewage? Believe it or not, this concept has already been taste-tested and approved.

If you prefer your steak to be cooked rare, you may want to reconsider that choice after hearing about the latest advancement in food technology to come out of Japan: an edible steak made from human feces, reports Discovery News. (Update: Discovery News is now unsure if the story is real and wondering if they were duped. It reminds us of this "Yes Men" poop burger hoax.)

Take a moment to let that gag reflex subside. Now consider this: it's already been taste-tested, approved, and could eventually become a practical solution to sewage treatment. Someday "bowel burgers" may even provide an easy source of protein for the hungry.

The steaks were first envisioned by Japanese researcher Mitsuyuki Ikeda after he was approached by Tokyo Sewage to come up with a solution for the city's overabundance of sewage mud. Although "eating it" probably wouldn't have occurred to most people, Ikeda recognized that the mud was chock full with protein-rich bacteria.

After isolating those proteins in the lab, Ikeda's team then combined them with a reaction enhancer and put them in an exploder. What eventually came out was no filet mignon, but it was edible.

"Theoretically, there's nothing wrong with this," said Douglas Powell, a professor of food safety at Kansas State University. "It could be quite safe to eat, but I'm sure there's a yuck factor there."

To make swallowing the stool steaks a little bit easier, a nutty flavor was added using soy protein, and red food coloring was mixed in too, apparently to make the concoction look more like a juicy, bloody steak. A few brave researchers even took the plunge and taste-tested the product. (Apparently it tastes like regular beef.)

The official composition of the lab-grown steak is 63 percent proteins, 25 percent carbohydrates, 3 percent lipids, and 9 percent minerals. (Which sounds a lot better than 100 percent poop). According to Powell, the idea isn't really all that much different than eating plants that have been fertilized with manure or other excrement.

The idea could even help to solve the world food crisis. By comparison, researchers have also proposed harvesting insect protein (i.e., "bug burgers") as one possible way to help combat famine worldwide. Are "bowel burgers" really so much worse? They also take the ethic of recycling to its logical extreme.

Powell did offer one caveat to the future poo'd food revolution, though: because the steaks are made from human feces, there's always a chance for contamination. If you're brave enough to eat this, at least make certain that it's properly cooked (as if you were going to eat one raw!).

When asked if he would ever consider eating one of the poop steaks if it wasn't cooked, Powell responded matter-of-factly.

"I wouldn't touch it," he said.

Comment by suzie on June 4, 2013 at 12:04am: We're already drinking recycled toilet water, there are certain people training children to drink water from toilet bowls with spoons ... I really hate these technoworld freaks. . Transhumanist scum sucking vampires who would have all eat sh*t and die sick after we're dead they will make us all meat patties and feed it to the world and call themselves altruistic .. There evil and must be stopped by our message of mass non compliance, civil disobedience retreat from there institutions such a as hospitals, all MD's, all big stores like wall mart, k-mart, all governments schools, supermarkets ect... Grow what you can, shop at all local stores for your needs. Its a start, and please kill you TV stop watching ere mind control crap, and limit your child's computer time .., read a book, do something with your hands, grow a garden, darn your socks I stead of buying new ones .. Think think think think before you act ... Get as healthy as possible eat more organic you'll eat much less and not be hungry .. Do something you thought you could not do, for instance, make jelly and bake bread, fix something .. But what ever you do don't eat anything unless you know exactly where it came from.. I had to realize I was damaged by a lifetime of living in the matrix and I do everything I can to detox from it and relearn EVERYTHING! We have been so damaged by it. The mistake they made was they allowed the salves to read. Therefore we have a capacity to learn, discover the answers to our dilemmas we are fighting for our very existence and the right to be human and live, love and express feelings and explore they universe we live in. I will never eat sh*t and neither should any of you!

Comment by Psychic Rabbichoso on June 3, 2013 at 11:07pm: It was a hoax, guys.

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on June 3, 2013 at 10:32pm

Comment by Nobody Will Observe on June 3, 2013 at 10:00pm: Deep Space

How do you know fur sure your not awake, inside of a dream?

Comment by Nobody Will Observe on June 3, 2013 at 9:58pm

Comment by Nobody Will Observe on June 3, 2013 at 9:56pm: Deep Space

U like Poop

Comment by Wolf on June 3, 2013 at 9:23pm: I am concerned with PEOPLE who (if I am correct) are advocating eating shit.

This is not normal....I have to ask who are these people?

James?! Who are these people?

Comment by Wolf on June 3, 2013 at 9:21pm: No...I raise my own meats...so HELL NO.

Comment by Nobody Will Observe on June 3, 2013 at 9:20pm: We're not already?

Comment by Wolf on June 3, 2013 at 9:19pm: Hey, it's a fetish burger...

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