Test-Tube Beef

There's been talk of famine and food shortages all over the world. Science has been pushing the boundaries on what can be considered food by creating meat from all sort of products. 

Recently a group of scientist in the Netherlands successfully grew beef from the stem cells of cow muscle tissue in a lab. The end result was a hamburger that cost $250,000 to create. The man who funded this project was none other than Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The ideal is simple...if we can grow beef from stem-cells at an affordable rate. It can reduce hunger problems around the world within a decade. 

The test-tube beef was served at an expensive restaurant in London. The people who tried the meat found it similar in consistency to beef but missing some of the flavor. Another problem was there was not enough fat in the meat to simulate the natural fat found in beef. These are issues that the scientist are still unraveling, but the initial results have proven successful. 

Beef grown in a lab isn't the worse way to get it. Awhile back I posted an article about a company in Japan that made burgers from human excrement. To learn more about research into test-tube beef read the article Scientists Cook Up Lab-Grown Beef by clicking the link. 

If you're curious about a burger made from human feces and food made from other peoples trash check out the article "Stew From Trash and Steaks From Feces…desperate Dining."

Stew from Trash and Steaks from Shit...desperate Dining

In Tondo, one of the most densely populated places on Earth. Where there live 90,000 people per square kilometer, they are forced to extreme gathering tactics for survival. Some of the business savvy citizens of Thailand dig through the garbage bags of fast food and other dining establishments picking already eaten food. While they are doing this, stray dogs and other animals are also digging through the trash bags eating whatever is available.

After the person gathers a pots worth of already eaten food, they chop it, wash it, and recooked it into a stew called Pag Pag. The stew is extremely popular and one of the fastest selling cuisines in Tondo. To the Western mind eating someone else's trash is a stretch for the imagination. Now imagine eating someone else's shit....

That's right meat made from shit..feces...excrement...poop....doo doo... and any other term fitting the description. Professor Akida in Japan. Created the first steaks from proteins extracted from human excrement. By extracting the proteins found in sewage mud and killing all the harmful bacteria scientist were able to create a edible meat product which simulates beef. To see the meat and learn more watch the video below, along with one featuring the people of Tondo.