Mmmm. Vanilla.

Japanese researchers have discovered how to make one of the ingredients of cow crap into a tasty treat:

In a world-first recycling project, a one-hour heating and pressuring process allows cow feces to produce vanillin, the main component of the vanilla-bean extract . . .

The vanillin extracted from the feces could be used in products such as shampoo and aromatic candles but not in food, said [Mayu] Yamamoto, who works for the Research Institute of the state-run International Medical Center of Japan.

Compared with usual vanilla, "this component is exactly the same but it would be difficult for people to accept it in food, given the recent rules of disclosing the origins of ingredients," she said.

The production cost using dung is less than a half of making vanillin out of vanilla beans, she added.

Comments

[Zsa Zsa]

Yikes! What about e-coli? Extra e-coli please.

[Jake]

Are these the same people that brought the world SoySauce made from discarded human hair ? Figures....

[Pixie]

Pass the chocolate please.

[JJM]

That's your future, folks, in the carbon-neutral, sustainable global village planned for us by the Great Al-Gore and his acolytes.

"Yesterday's dinner today!"

[dorkafork]

Oh geez, people. "This component is exactly the same"! Vanillin is vanillin. If we can get vanilla from cow crap, I think our fecal removal technology will be up to the task.

Think of it this way, that water from your tap was probably cow piss once. Cows crap all over, it gets into the ground. There's cow crap everywhere! And that's not even counting the bird crap, the squirrel crap, the fish crap...

[dorkafork]

I WANT MY COW DUNG VANILLA.

[Pixie]

Oh Crap.

[Pixie]

Oh Crap.

[Zsa Zsa]

And, put a little extra MSG, please and thank you,