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15 Jun 2011, 7:36 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Subotai wrote:

Awesome.
It might sound gross but when you think of eating a bloody, puss filled hunk of flesh which usually is tainted by feces anyway then it's all just protein.
This way is much more humane.

I rather just be a vegetarian.

Have you paid attention to methods for restoring the fertility of the soil?

All food is recycled rot - that's life.

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15 Jun 2011, 7:42 pm

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iamnotaparakeet wrote:

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But it would have still have touched feces in the past. Mater transforms, unless America's water system really sucks, the process that happens between sewage and tap water got rid of all the health hazards so condensing all over again is probably unnecessary.

specially compared to the nations south of us who have too many power hungry politicians and corrupt police to bother worrying about such matters as clean water.

ha and America doesn't have those? :lol:

America's corrupt politicians are better at hiding their stuff. Most of them noticed corrupt corporate megalomaniac pays better too.

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15 Jun 2011, 9:10 pm

Sand wrote:

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/219200/Japanese-Scientist-Creates-Meat-Substitute-From-Sewage

Is this a joke? It is something I would expect from The Onion.

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15 Jun 2011, 9:16 pm

Vexcalibur wrote:

You could just stay a carnivore and eat your meat. It will probably get more expensive with time. But I don't plan to stop to eat meat just for that.

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What if I boiled the water, condensed, and collected it prior to using it?

The word in the dictionary for that is overkill.

But it would have still have touched feces in the past. Mater transforms, unless America's water system really sucks, the process that happens between sewage and tap water got rid of all the health hazards so condensing all over again is probably unnecessary.

Every food on this planet has probably touched or been feces at one point or another.

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15 Jun 2011, 9:20 pm

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Every food on this planet has probably touched or been feces at one point or another.

No sh*t?

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15 Jun 2011, 9:24 pm

ruveyn wrote:

blauSamstag wrote:

Every food on this planet has probably touched or been feces at one point or another.

No sh*t?

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Circle of life, my friend.

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15 Jun 2011, 11:43 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Sand wrote:

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/219200/Japanese-Scientist-Creates-Meat-Substitute-From-Sewage

Is this a joke? It is something I would expect from The Onion.

ruveyn[/quote

The joke is that humanity has been turning horse manure into carrots for centuries and is horrified that a chemist can short circuit the process. Astronauts have been drinking their own piss converted back to drinking water for a while, now.

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16 Jun 2011, 7:36 am

Sand wrote:

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Sand wrote:

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/219200/Japanese-Scientist-Creates-Meat-Substitute-From-Sewage

You have a good point point there. I guess the more or less direct conversion of sh*t into edible stuff is aesthetically displeasing. I would eat the sh*t steak if
(1) I did not know it was the immediate result of fecal material and (2) it tasted good.

Your point is well taken.

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16 Jun 2011, 10:28 am

ruveyn wrote:

Sand wrote:

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/219200/Japanese-Scientist-Creates-Meat-Substitute-From-Sewage

Is this a joke? It is something I would expect from The Onion.

ruveyn

Mystery meat topic

Theoretically, you could just keep recycling your own excrement via the process developed by Ikeda.

Home cooking.

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16 Jun 2011, 10:42 am

It only costs 20 times as much as regular meat! In vitro meat seems a lot more promising... Of course, the best thing would be to start weaning ourselves off of meat entirely. These super genius scientists could start working on pollination techniques or something, for when we've killed off all the bees.

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16 Jun 2011, 10:51 am

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Meat is the best source of protein. Humans are smart because our ancestors ate meat which helped their brains grow large.

We don't have to eat that much and we can trim out a lot of the fat.

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16 Jun 2011, 11:41 am

ruveyn wrote:

Sand wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Sand wrote:

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/219200/Japanese-Scientist-Creates-Meat-Substitute-From-Sewage

Is this a joke? It is something I would expect from The Onion.

ruveyn

The joke is that humanity has been turning horse manure into carrots for centuries and is horrified that a chemist can short circuit the process. Astronauts have been drinking their own piss converted back to drinking water for a while, now.

I still would rather have the crap processed by plants rather than via a more manmade process with more inefficiency by default. Or at least gamma ray the crap before using it.

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16 Jun 2011, 2:11 pm

How about soylent green?

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16 Jun 2011, 2:34 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Subotai wrote:

Awesome.
It might sound gross but when you think of eating a bloody, puss filled hunk of flesh which usually is tainted by feces anyway then it's all just protein.
This way is much more humane.

I rather just be a vegetarian.

QFT

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16 Jun 2011, 3:59 pm

Philologos wrote:

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Subotai wrote:

Awesome.
It might sound gross but when you think of eating a bloody, puss filled hunk of flesh which usually is tainted by feces anyway then it's all just protein.
This way is much more humane.

I rather just be a vegetarian.

Have you paid attention to methods for restoring the fertility of the soil?

All food is recycled rot - that's life.

Speaking of which, the way we do agriculture nowaday is a timed bomb as much as soil quality go. Recycled food may be the future...

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16 Jun 2011, 4:55 pm

Tollorin wrote:

Philologos wrote:

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Subotai wrote:

Awesome.
It might sound gross but when you think of eating a bloody, puss filled hunk of flesh which usually is tainted by feces anyway then it's all just protein.
This way is much more humane.

I rather just be a vegetarian.

Have you paid attention to methods for restoring the fertility of the soil?

All food is recycled rot - that's life.

Speaking of which, the way we do agriculture nowaday is a timed bomb as much as soil quality go. Recycled food may be the future...

Using manure and rotating crops so as to resupply nutrients depleted from the previous type of plants and utilized ones left over or what is a time bomb? Growing the same type of plants in the same ground continuously?

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