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Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
Born of noble intentions, and no doubt an interesting angle from which to approach the global food crisis, but would you personally eat it?
In sixth grade, when my school brought us to a water purification factory, we were given bottles of water. Most of us heartily drank the stuff. Then they told us the process of getting water from sewage via reverse osmosis, and how the water is actually cleaner than anything you'd find in nature or from a tap. Logically, there's absolutely nothing wrong with reclaimed water (and I suppose, with the advent of the turd burger, reclaimed food); and though I will quite happily drink reclaimed water, there's still that lingering psychological barrier of voluntarily downing human excrement. I doubt my leniency extends to food.
Discuss. Inane or innovative? What are the biggest drawbacks? Outside of the lab and the fact that we can now politely tell someone to eat shit, what are its biggest strengths?
Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
Born of noble intentions, and no doubt an interesting angle from which to approach the global food crisis, but would you personally eat it?
In sixth grade, when my school brought us to a water purification factory, we were given bottles of water. Most of us heartily drank the stuff. Then they told us the process of getting water from sewage via reverse osmosis, and how the water is actually cleaner than anything you'd find in nature or from a tap. Logically, there's absolutely nothing wrong with reclaimed water (and I suppose, with the advent of the turd burger, reclaimed food); and though I will quite happily drink reclaimed water, there's still that lingering psychological barrier of voluntarily downing human excrement. I doubt my leniency extends to food.
Discuss. Inane or innovative? What are the biggest drawbacks? Outside of the lab and the fact that we can now politely tell someone to eat shit, what are its biggest strengths?