Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

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You can't get more cyberpunk than this, right?

It's being called the "poop burger". Japanese scientists have found a way to create artificial meat from sewage containing human feces.

Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter.

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[top_geezer]

This makes Soylent Green, the long pig kibble, in Harry Harrison's 'Make Room, Make Room' positively attractive.

[jabber]

"It's pee-poo! It's made of pee-poo!" - C. Heston.

Prophecy...

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Sol: I was there, I can prove it! When I was a kid, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Not this... crap!

Re: Prophecy...

[jabber]

Mouse: That's exactly my point. Exactly. Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.

[strassenhund]

I find this perfectly fitting. It's something to laugh cynical about.