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GENE EDITING MYTHS, RISKS, & RESOURCES

Gene Editing Myths and Reality

Let them eat poop burgers

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Published: 04 July 2011
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Japanese scientists have found a way to create edible steaks from human faeces.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110615/tc_digitaltrends/japanesescientistscreatesmeatoutoffeces

They are not the first scientists to come up with this idea. We previously reported on a scientist at Liverpool University who, in the 1970s, ate his own excrement as part of an experiment to see if human excrement held the key to feeding the world's poor.
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/1090

Even then the idea wasn't new – it first seems to have been put forward by the 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift, who wrote in his novel Gulliver's Travels about an imaginary scientific academy where the professors were engrossed in such remarkable projects as making spiders spin naturally coloured silk for stockings, and converting excrement back into food.
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/1090

Swift's satire was inspired by a visit he made to the Royal Society in 1710. Today the RS is dominated by GM proponents and is an enthusiastic ally of the genetic engineering and geoengineering industries.
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Royal_Society

More recently, contemporary satirists, the Yes Men, posing as experts from the WTO, first provided their audience with boxes of hamburgers to tuck into, then graphically detailed a WTO master-plan to turn human excrement into "hamburgers" with which to feed the world.
http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/

Sound familiar? Incidentally, the new Japanese poop burgers may be GM, as the researchers "enhance the flavor with soy protein".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110615/tc_digitaltrends/japanesescientistscreatesmeatoutoffeces

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