On Feb 25, 2:10 pm, Mega <masterstorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So there would be drastically more food. You could possibly feed 100
> bio of people with that!?
>
> What do you think about that?
Why not engineer photosynthetic (and other requisite) proteins
directly into humans? Part of my work in grad school involved
transforming mammalian mitochondria with bacteriorhodopsin. I wanted
to inject the transfection reagents sub-dermally as a tattoo. I got as
far as growing purple cells and logistically, things fell apart.
Our biology and our food production/consumption network is far more
complex than what's taught about the food web in HS biology classes.
First, the development of intelligence pretty obviously, tends to run
up the food chain. Not saying that eating strictly plants makes us
dumber, just that the consumption of meat was pretty obviously
associated with it's development. Second, we produce more than enough
food to feed the world's population, currently the parts of the world
that go hungry do so of their own volition or at the behest of their
rulers.
Personally, for several years, the majority of my diet has consisted
of purified dairy proteins and essential fatty acids. I point out to
friends and co-workers that it's healthy and takes < 10 min. to
prepare. I'm still regarded as eccentric. Even if you invented the
'food pill' tomorrow, it will be generations before it replaces food
to any appreciable degree.
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