On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:02:38PM +0000, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> It would be fun, but you don't ned stuff to resemble meat to feed the world. You can already feed more people a fully nutritious diet with just plants. Soy, for example, fulfills all of one's protein needs, but tends to have healthier fats, more antioxidants, and a dose of anticancer "angiogenesis inhibitors" to boot.
...and it's missing something -- I'm not sure what -- that my metabolism requires in order to keep me healthy. All plants do. I've tried. Systematically. It turns out that if I don't get a significant amount of red meat in my diet, I get stupid. It also turns out that I can eat all the bean, nut, soy, &c protein I want, to the point of being physically unable to fit another bite down my throat, and still feel ravagingly hungry, which is an incredibly unpleasant sensation.
If I could figure out what it is from meat that I need to be functional, and come up with a plant or bacterial or fungal substitute, that would be pretty awesome, but until then, I definitely won't be shitting on ideas about lower-impact muscle tissue culture.
--mlp
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