JUNE 18, 2011 1:41 PM PDT
Japanese scientist creates ‘poop burger’? Surely not
by Chris Matyszczyk

Are you going to be having a burger today? Bacon? Cheese? Pickle? How about feces? I am not being facetious. I am not even being fecetious.
For Digital Trends informs me of a trend that might just have your digits twitching involuntarily.
It seems that a researcher from the alleged Okayama Laboratory in Japan has taken it upon himself to take the concept of “waste not, want not” to a new and delirious level. Mitsuyuki Ikeda is clearly not a man who is faint of heart or of stomach. On allegedly being approached by the Tokyo Sewage company, which was concerned that it was in possession of just so much sewage mud, Ikeda digested the problem very carefully. He poked and prodded at the sewage, actions which revealed that it was rather full of protein, thanks to all the bacteria that was embedded in its sludge. “Why,” he reportedly said to himself, “there is meat in this mud. And there is no murder involved.”

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