In order to deal with our ever increasing food prices and make environmentally friendly organic food available to everyone on the planet, one Japanese scientist is eating his own shit. No, really. He extracts protein from human feces, mixes it with soya, adds steak sauce and calls it artificial meat.

Mitsyuki Ikeda, the scientist behind the idea, says the biggest hurdle stopping his artificial meat from catching on is the psychological barrier preventing people from eating their own shit. That and the fact that turd burgers are currently 10-20 times more expensive than regular meat (due to research costs and low demand).

I’m not sure if this video is an actual news report or an Onion-like parody, but… Holy shit snacks!

And the inevitable question: would you be tempted to eat shit burgers?

PS: I wonder how many times these shit burgers could be recycled.