Burgers made of excrement? (We're not kidding)

Is it another in a long line of cyber goofs? After hearing about this story, I thought it was just a punchline for a comic's monologue. A quick surf on the Internet turns up a YouTube video of Mitsuyuki Ikeda, described as being a researcher from Japan's Okayama Laboratory, explaining how his team worked on creating synthetic meat using, um, human waste products.

Sewage mud apparently contains a fair amount of protein, according to Ikeda, who says that his team found a way to extract the protein to produce a meat supplement. Of course, this could be one of those periodic "Onion"-like spoofs designed to leave the media with egg - or something else - all over its collective face.  But watch the video and see for yourself. If it is on the up and up, then oh my. Question du jour: Would you partake?

[greensboro78]

Talk about going green...or is it brown

[nojoy01]

I wonder how Ralph Nader & the rest of the "green movement" (pun intended) feel about this aspect of recycling?

[TabithaTriantes]

"Of course, this could be one of those periodic "Onion"-like spoofs designed to leave the media with egg - or something else - all over its collective face. But watch the video and see for yourself. If it is on the up and up, then oh my. Question du jour: Would you partake?"
No,the question dujour is why the mighty media hasn't sent someone from their Tokyo office to either confirm this as an actual thing, or to declare this "An "Onion"- like spoof. Several hundred hits on Google all pointing to this one video?? The job of the media is to find out facts and inform us, not offer up any old thing and ask the reader a pretty silly question. I wouldn't eat it because it supposedly has soy protein in it...I despise the taste of soy extenders in any meat product,so even were I willing to eat ****,I wouldn't if mixed with soy. There-I answered your question,now you answer mine... is this true. or a bunch of ****?
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[formrusmcsgt]

Soylent Green comes to mind....

[slatep]

DISGUSTING.!!!!!

[RedDeath50]

Available next month at a McDonalds near you...The McDung Burger!

Oh wait...having tasted McDonalds food previously, I think they've been serving these for decades already!

[Imthaid2]

I was going to say the same. McDonald's is just NASTY.

[Bojax39]

"Available next month at a McDonalds near you...The McDung Burger!"

Last burger I had there tasted like that's already on the menu.

[RaunchyChauncey]

ITS MADE OF PEOPLE.....s doodoo