Spoiler Alert!
If you are eating while reading this, or getting ready for a meal, I suggest you come back another time.
At the latest count, there were 6,998,608,412 people on the planet. The United Nations estimates that around 850 million of them will go hungry each day. This presents a serious challenge for both humanitarians and entrepreneurs alike. In a previous post, I wrote of “pink slime”, the delightful additive that many fast food entrepreneurs were using to stretch a pound of hamburger meat. The Japanese, not to be out-innovated by those clever Americans, have been quietly raising the ante. Their latest breakthrough begins with the recognition that human waste contains a considerable amount of protein. Researcher Ikeda-san does acknowledge that there may be some reticence surrounding the eating of human excrement. Ya think?
