Not Soylant Green, Not Replicator Food

[Gene Steinberg]

But maybe a new way to address food shortages, and to reduce our reliance on cattle. Hear that Chris?

How test-tube meat could be the future of food - CNN.com

 

[boomerang]

This would be a kind of dream come true for humanity. And livestock too.

I'm imagining a future scenario where cattle are an endangered species protected on preserves, plagued by hunting poachers catering to a worldwide black market of eccentrics who want to eat "the real thing" and then brag about it. Let's hope our good sense keeps pace with our science.

 

[manxman]

i suppose our bowels need to be active, otherwise they could cause us complications long-term, otherwise we could ingest a pill for each nutrient/acid/elements [calcium iron] at a daily/weekly/monthly dosage that the human body needs to stay in perfect shape.
i managed for 18 months on 300ml aday of enriched medical milk-shake when i couldnt chew because of the intense pain it generated [clawed jaw].

theres no doubt in my mind that we dont need to eat, however the body must need to process the roughage to function correctly long-term, IF you cannot eat for whatever reason, you stop feeling hungry, and dont get wind anymore after a month or so, i drank around 4 pints of milk aday to fill my stomach, i think the future will be food free, in the sense of food as we know it, just powders or pills, especially slow release pills, once a month types for various acids etc, and daily milkshake type powders for bulk vitamins etc, we dont need to eat the whole pig, and flush 90% of it away really, we only need what the body absorbs.

and ofcourse it would all be toxin free, and that is something our food has NOT been for many years.

 

[Charlie Prime]

We see this divergence already occurring in Austin, Texas.

The wealthy Ubermenchen purchase clean, naturally-grown, GMO-free ,wholesome food in expensive boutique stores like Central Market.

The poor Lumpenproletariat masses eat cheap, factory-produced, GMO-laced garbage food from stores like Wal-Mart.

China has already formalized this divergence with special farms serving only the Vanguard Elites...

In China, what you eat tells who you are - Los Angeles Times

 

[mike]

But maybe a new way to address food shortages, and to reduce our reliance on cattle. Hear that Chris?

How test-tube meat could be the future of food - CNN.com

I have a very large favourites folder on the subject of invitro meat, the answer is simply to make it cheaper than traditional meat.
But thats the issue, the energy required to make it is very high, which is also why i have another folder filled with plasma reactors etc etc

These two technologys go hand in hand i hope they both succeed.

If i had to eat a burger i would much rather it was invitro meat.
Once this technology kicks in, marketing will be easy. if the two products are identical except that an animal didnt suffer and die, and its cheaper, it will be a sucess im sure

 

[boomerang]

We see this divergence already occurring in Austin, Texas.

The wealthy Ubermenchen purchase clean, naturally-grown, GMO-free ,wholesome food in expensive boutique stores like Central Market.

The poor Lumpenproletariat masses eat cheap, factory-produced, GMO-laced garbage food from stores like Wal-Mart.

China has already formalized this divergence with special farms serving only the Vanguard Elites...

In China, what you eat tells who you are - Los Angeles Times

Oh yeah. It's funny how non-linear things can be. I can recall when Austin was a Bohemian college town with one of the cheapest costs of living in the U.S. The university was surrounded by neighborhoods filled with students and colorful eccentrics living in cheap and charming little houses. The charming houses are still there. It's just that now they run about a half-mil and up. Austin is still a great place to live. But as I said earlier: the yuppies came, they saw, they conquered.