Nor is it genetically modified in any way the breakthrough burger was cultured from the shoulders of a Blanc Bleu Belge and a Blonde d'Aquitaine which should make it kosher to opponents of GMOs in places like Europe.There is, of course, the "yuck factor".
Such treatment would kill the nasty bugs in faeces, too, though, so mushrooms grown on treated nappies should, in theory, be safe to eat.In practice, overcoming the yuck factor might be an insuperable barrier to marketing nappy-grown fungi, and the cost of the steam treatment could make the exercise futile.
For all the talk of superorganisms (and despite the yuck factor of what is being moved from one body to another), transplanting a microbiome is far easier than transplanting a heart or a kidney.Disgusting but usefulTwo other areas look promising.
Indeed, Clintonian optimists argue that the "yuck factor" in the Starr report will produce a backlash in the president's favour.
That said, she surely makes insufficient allowance for the "yuck" factor.
The second part, water recycling, has been a harder sell, because of what the industry calls the yuck factor.
The "yuck" factor that cross-species transplants would probably provoke would surely fade if lives were saved.
For some people the idea of a baby that is genetically related to three different people is viscerally unsettling (something that ethicists refer to as the "yuck factor").
It would, he says, be "yuck".
The new owner of Lameloise had trained in a great kitchen, but had more recently worked for Accor, the enormous French hotel business whose "offers" include Formule 1, Ibis and Mercure and all those other depressing boxes you see on ring roads and make you think "Yuck.
To make things sicklier, Roth has pressed his cheese on to roofing felt – yuck – and squashed the lot behind a clear plastic membrane, giving his landscape the puckered air of a particularly unhygienic supermarket.
