[DIYbio] Re: Improving the food chain

> So to make 1kg of lion meat you'd need 1000kg of wheat.
>
> (Now imagine a human eating the lion -> 10'000kg or 10 tons!!)
>
> Are there alternatives?

Alternatives to eating lion meat... I could think of a few.

There's been some work with in vitro meat, but culturing cells
requires so many chemicals and plastic disposables - it seems like it
would be much harder on the earth than just raising some cows.

Plants are really the way to go though. It would be interesting to see
the adoption of agricultural species with augmented vitamin production
pathways - like the vitamin-a producing golden rice, but unfortunately
out in the real world it seems that if it isn't engineered with
advantage to the grower (like Bt strains) or the seller (like the
Flavr Savr tomato) then it tends not to penetrate the market very
well.

On Feb 25, 3:10 pm, Mega <masterstorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys, I was thinkig about that stuff.
>
> To make 1 kg of goat meat, you need 10 kg wheat. If a wolve eats the
> goat, you need again 10 kg for 1 kg.
> Same game if a lion eats the wolve.
>
> wheat->meat goat->meat wolve -> meat lion
> 1000   ->       100 -> 10             -> 1
> So to make 1kg of lion meat you'd need 1000kg of wheat.
>
> (Now imagine a human eating the lion -> 10'000kg or 10 tons!!)
>
> Are there alternatives? Why not eat photosynthesing bacteria, that
> would be the most effcient (besides 'eating' sunlight).
> Is it possible to grow bacteria, make a pellet by centrifuging,
> heating them up to kill them and eat the pellet?
> (Remember: 10t of equals or 1 kg human)
>
> Or, another approach:
> Why not make plants produce proteins that meat is made of?
> so you would infact have meat, but it was grown in a plant.
>
> Maybe the body of the plant shall consist of meat or it could make
> fruits (immagine a water melon filled with meat).
>
> So there would be drastically more food. You could possibly feed 100
> bio of people with that!?
>
> What do you think about that?

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