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Spanish scientists use bacteria from baby poop to make sausages
2014 Feb 28, 2:47am 709 views 8 comments
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HydroCabron
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2014 Feb 28, 5:44am
Since I learned about fecal implants, my yech threshold went much higher.
HydroCabron
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2014 Feb 28, 6:04am
If you need a good argument in favor of purges, show trials, and labor camps, I refer you to a Whole Foods parking lot at 6:15 p.m.
Chemical weapons have an undeserved stigma.
curious2
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2014 Feb 28, 6:09am
That's clearly a gay elephant!
Curious2 ...
LOL - I didn't check if the elephants in the video were same sex or opposite sex, but it's most likely a digestive issue. This behavior has been observed in elephants, monkeys, and other animals around the world, and AFAIK there is no correlation with sex.
Since I learned about fecal implants, my yech threshold went much higher.
I think you mean transplants, not implants. For years, c. difficile was an often lethal diagnosis resulting usually from excessive use of antibiotics. Hospitals killed the patients slowly, and very expensively. Finally a doctor decided to try fecal transplants in patients who were near death after all the more expensive treatments had failed. Almost all the patients recovered fully.
But, the "yech threshold" is what many people substitute for morality. The elephants aren't doing anything immoral, they're probably warding off c. difficile or something similar. They don't have money or Obamacare, so they find solutions rather than revenue models. As for morality, Dan's thread makes a lot more sense than Quigley's "moral position".
Tenpoundbass
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2014 Feb 28, 6:23am
I swear to god, I'm going to have to start producing my own food.
HydroCabron
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2014 Feb 28, 7:45am
I swear to god, I'm going to have to start producing my own food.
Based on the content you have posted here, I am certain you can produce enough fertilizer to support 100 acres of crops.
Tenpoundbass
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2014 Mar 2, 1:28am
I'm not the one lying to the
Elderly, Sick, Poor, Middle Class, and the Youth on a daily basis.
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http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/02/27/Spanish-scientists-use-bacteria-from-baby-poop-to-make-sausages/UPI-57041393528686/
CASTELLDEFELS, Spain, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A team of Spanish scientists said they used strains of probiotic bacteria found in baby poop to create pork sausages.
The scientists, from the food safety program at Catalonia's Institute of Food and Agricultural Research, wrote in the journal Meat Science they used 43 infant fecal samples from donated diapers to gather three strains of probiotic bacteria that they then used to make pork sausages, ABC News reported Thursday.
The scientists wrote the resulting sausage bore a strong resemblance to feut, a type of fermented Mediterranean sausage.
Gregor Reid, the director of the Canadian Research and Development Centre for Probiotics in Ontario, said gathering the bacteria from baby poop does not make it unsanitary.
"The source of the bacteria is of no concern to me. How did the babies get the organisms in the first place? Likely from mom," Reid was quoted as saying. "As long as the isolated strain is properly tested, it should be fine."
Probiotic researcher Jeremy Burton said the fecal material is highly diluted to isolate the bacteria and there would be no actual poop in the sausage.
He said people might be surprised to learn bacteria for food is frequently derived from human waste.
"Ever eaten a probiotic yogurt? The probiotic strains found in those yogurts have human origins," he told ABC News.