Honestly i can't remember the last time I ate canned meat, The only canned meat I can remember eating in the last decade or two has been SPAM, and that was only because I have dated a few Korean ladies and for some reason Koreans love extruded beaks and claws otherwise known as SPAM.

Actually the good news to be taken from the article is the fact the PRC is actually busting these people and not turning a complete blind eye to it. Maybe with enough pressure on them they will quit putting lead into children's toys some day as well?

The live markets over there kill me.  

They know SARS comes from Civet Cats yet go to any live market today and there they are in cages next to rover and everything else

Most food production for the United States is still here in the US.  So far!

Japanese Make "Delicious", Nourishing Steaks From Human Feces

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 Japanese Make "Delicious", Nourishing Steaks From Human Feces
Jason Mick (Blog) - June 17, 2011 10:51 AM

Japan is plotting to get the world to eat excrement.  (Source: Tom Six)

Professor Mitsuyuki Ikeda inspects his feces "meat".  (Source: TWO/YouTube)

Fresh "steak" shoots out the exploder.  (Source: TWO/YouTube)

The researchers say the meat is delicious and tastes like beef. It is colored with red food coloring to give it a pleasing tone.  (Source: TWO/YouTube)Mankind's food chain may become a loop

 
Mankind has come up with all sorts of ideas for new meat sources from cloned animals to chowing down on insects, but this idea may be the most outlandish yet.

The Tokyo Sewage service in Japan serves over 13 million people over approximately a 2,200 square kilometer area.  It approached Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, with an unusual problem -- it had too much "sewer mud" (also known as human excrement).

It turns out human excrement is a breeding ground for scores of bacteria.  So Mr. Ikeda cooked up an unusual solution -- make food [video] out of the feces.

The first step is to cook the bacteria, killing them, and to extract their proteins via separation techniques according to Yahoo News.  Soy protein is added to enhance the flavor.  The meat mixture travels to a "reaction enhancer" (likely a chemical reactor of some sort) where it turns into a textured "meat" and is then extrude through an "exploder".

The delicious "steak" is even finished with red food color to give it a comforting hue.  Mr. Ikeda claims that in initial testing people found the feces steak to taste somewhat like beef.

Mr. Ikeda is afraid the main obstacle to deploying excrement meat to the masses is the "psychological barrier."  He states, "I admit that few people would be keen to eat it knowing its made of human excrement."

Indeed, the concept of "fake" meat alone is hard for some to swallow.  Taco Bell was recently sued when diners discovered that its beef mixed "fake meat" filers with real meat.

How much would the "meat" cost?  Mr. Ikeda comments, "As far as the cost is concerned, because at the moment it includes the cost of research our artificial meat is 10 to 20 times more expensive than normal meat.  But once the research is complete and it's put on the market, we'll probably be able to price it at roughly the same level as normal meat."

The new "meat" is also healthier than traditional meat as it’s an ideal mix of 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids and 9% minerals.  The small fat content, in particular makes the feces steaks healthier than their animal counterpart.

The new meat would also cut down on the greenhouse gas emissions, which traditional livestock produce.  In that regard it could even earn "carbon credits" helping its price to be cheaper than animal-derived meat.

The idea may sound crazy, but consider that Japan is no stranger to fine meat products.  Its Kobe region beef is renowned by connoisseurs worldwide for it's delicious flavor.

And as the band Pink Floyd famously sang, "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?!"

http://www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Make+Delicious+Nourishing+Steaks+From+Human+Feces/article21932.htm
 

WARNING : china using cooking oil from sewage;Recycled Cooking Oil Found to Be Latest Hazard in Chin

Recycled Cooking Oil Found to Be Latest Hazard in China  

SHANGHAI — Regulators are investigating whether restaurants throughout China are creating food hazards by cooking with recycled oil, some tainted with food waste, and prominence given to the issue in the state-controlled media suggests that the problem could be widespread.
 
The State Food and Drug Administration issued a nationwide emergency notice telling health bureaus to investigate the sources of cooking oil in mid-March. The notice came shortly after a professor and a group of students at Wuhan Polytechnic University announced that they had found widespread use of recycled oil in their region in an undercover investigation. The professor, He Dongping, asserted that recycled oil was being used to prepare 1 in 10 meals in China.
 
Regulators are now searching for illegal oil recycling mills, and some health bureaus have begun releasing the names of restaurants and food establishments that were found to be using questionable oil.
 
Last November, regulators in southern China raided several workshops for turning discarded waste — possibly even sewage — into cooking oil.
 
China has repeatedly been hit by food safety scandals over the past few years, including contaminated milk, eggs and animal feed and the selling of diseased pigs. In 2007, the head of the State Food and Drug Administration was executed for failing to properly police the country’s food and drug industry, and China announced a major food safety crackdown.
 

Huang Fenghong, deputy director of the Oil Crops Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said the use of illegal cooking oil was a serious problem in China.
 
“Some low-end restaurants establish stable buy-and-sell relationships with underground oil recyclers,” he said in a telephone interview this week. “Some oil recyclers just dig out the oil from drains, because high-end restaurants seldom sell that drainage oil.”
 

Bao Beibei contributed research.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/world/asia/01shanghai.html

FDA Approved Aspartame in Diet Drinks Radically Increases Your Risk of Cancer  

 
I believe "the bacteria eating the poop" is a reference to that constant companion of poop since time began: our good friend, Escherichia coli. An amusing little microbe to be sure. It is easily detected, and it's presence in water supplies is always proof positive that somewhere, somehow the waste treatment situation is not up to par.
 

 
I truly hope that you are telling the truth when you say, "I would never eat it, don't know anyone that would." However, if you or any of your circle of friends are fond of either drinking beverages, chewing gum, or consuming any number of increasingly commonplace foodstuffs sweatened with Aspartame (Nutri-Sweet) you may have inadvertantly committed the dietary faux pas of eating "shit."
 

 
Aspartame is prepared with a process utilising the fecal material derived from GMO Escherichia coli as it's most important ingredient. Aspartame acquired it's FDA approved status during the period of time when that old thief himself Donald Rumsfield had revolved through the usual door from all his murky activities as an all-around genocidalist war-monger into the Board of Directors of Searle. Aspartame quickly became the profit center for Searle, and the company continues to get even more milk out of the same cash cow.
 
by Dr. Mercola  

Tom Philpott got much more of a reaction to his February 10, 2011, aspartame article than he expected. He reports, “I guess in the back of my mind, I was thinking, people still drink that stuff?”
 
Well, they do—by the bucketful. Overall, U.S. soda consumption is declining slowly, but Americans still drink more soda than anyone else on the planet, by a wide margin. According to one reckoning, the average American drinks 736 “eight-ounce servings” each year.
 
Ozimek also compared warnings about aspartame’s danger to 9/11 conspiracy theories, claiming the FDA “adequately followed its food additive approval process in approving aspartame.”
 
http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/fda-approved-aspartame-in-diet-drinks-radically-increases-your-risk-of-cancer/

Would You Eat a Burger Made from Poop?  

This is a poopburger. As in, made from shit. I'm not even kidding, the Japanese extracted protein from human poop, mixed it with soya, added steak sauce and called it hamburger patties. Are you throwing up yet? Cause I did.
 
Mitsyuki Ikeda, the mad scientist behind this foul mashup, says some people may have a psychological aversion to eating fake meat made from poop. I think he's wrong. ALL people will have a psychological aversion. Sure, we all make jokes that fast food burgers taste like crap but we still don't want to actually eat crap, dude.
 
Ikeda, to his credit, created these poop burgers in an effort to be resourceful and recycle human waste. He realized if he could use "sewage mud", which is poop (you know you're in trouble when the euphemism of a word is just as bad as the word itself) and is everywhere, to formulate his burgers he could be completely efficient. Right now the burgers cost 10-20 times of regular meat because it factors in his research costs, the price will drop if there's enough demand. I never thought I had to ask this question but would you eat a burger made from poop?
 
http://gizmodo.com/5812276/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop