On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:49 PM, mad_casual <ademlookes@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
The world is fed today by oil though, as Matt pointed out. I think the
population will crash if we don't replace as our power source somehow.
>
> 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.
Care to elaborate a bit more? Do you eat the same meal everyday, a la
Warren Buffett (who is said to eat the same thing every day)?
--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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