/oss/taxonomy/term/1128/all en /oss/article/food-health-quirky-science-technology/japanese-scientist-and-his-crappy-meat <p>It sounds believable. After all the Japanese do eat some strange things. They eat “fugu,” prepared from puffer fish which if not properly eviscerated contains enough tetrodotoxin to kill the diner. I suppose there is a certain excitement in eating and waiting to see if you will survive. Then of course they eat raw fish. So it sounds possible that they would eat turd burgers. Indeed numerous blogs, newspapers and radio reports picked up on a video that shows a Japanese researcher isolating protein from sewage and turning it into a meat-like concoction that can be consumed as a burger.</p> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:14:36 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1980 at /oss