Saw this when browsing the reels section on instagram. His profile username is "_tradwill". Has 19k followers. So it's not too much of a scam profile. 700 posts.. conspiracy stuff.

Ran that through video to text.. this was the transcript.

"What is the world coming to? They're now making me out two of the worst things you can put in your body, soy and human feces. Japanese scientists have developed a method to create edible steaks from human feces. Unbelievable? Well, it's happening. Mitsuyuki Aikita, a researcher at the Okoyama Laboratory collaborated with Tokyo Sewage to address sewage mud excess. They discovered the content in the mud contains high protein due to bacteria. So the team isolated and combined these proteins with a reaction enhancer. Result? Synthetic steak. The meat comprises of 63% protein, 25% carbs, 3% lipids, and 9% minerals. And it's visually enhanced with food coloring for a red hue and improved flavor using soy protein."

Checking with google gemini AI. At first, it's not giving me direct site links and I go.. cough it up. Then it gave these. I checked the first one, they get into it.

Here are the direct links to the articles I cited, demonstrating their publication dates in 2011 and their coverage of the "poop burger" story:

Salon.com: "The mystery of the Japanese 'poop burger' story"

Link: https://www.salon.com/2011/06/23/japan_feces_meat_viral/

Published: June 23, 2011

Inhabitat: "POOP BURGER: Japanese Researchers Create Artificial Meat From Human Feces"

Link: https://inhabitat.com/poop-burger-japanese-researcher-creates-artificial-meat-from-human-feces/

Published: June 16, 2011

Live Science: "Steak Made from Human Excrement: Is It Safe?"

Link: https://www.livescience.com/14669-poop-meat-safety.html

Published: June 17, 2011

CNET: "Japanese scientist creates 'poop burger'? Surely not"

Link: https://www.cnet.com/culture/japanese-scientist-creates-poop-burger-surely-not/

Published: June 18, 2011