There's always upland rice, which doesn't need flooding by the look of
it (not sure though, maybe it does at some point?).
On 26/02/12 19:35, Mega wrote:
> Youn know, rice produces a lot of methane. And methane is a very
> effecticve greenhouse gas, 25-times mor effective than carbon
> dioxide!!
>
> Althought ther was a study, when you flood the rice later than usual,
> it makes much less methane.
>
> On 26 Feb., 20:13, Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgar...@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> Why not knock-out the phytoestrogen pathway? A quick google didn't
>> turn up any prior art on this... I wonder if it would screw other
>> things up in the plant (protein/nutrient loss, lethal to plant so it
>> won't even grow).
>>
>>> Meat is a wasteful use of fertile farmland. You don't need synbio to fix the problem, though you can still use it to improve the nutritive value of crops. Look up "golden rice", you'll like it!
>>
>> Hasn't Golden Rice been 'done' for years now? I thought impoverished
>> nations didn't want any part of it, because it was GMO. If I could buy
>> Golden Rice, and it tasted decent, I'd eat it (as I eat rice often).
>>
>> --
>> Nathan McCorkle
>> Rochester Institute of Technology
>> College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
>
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