I know that in primordial times we were part of the food chain. We killed beasts for food, and a few did likewise to us.

I think it’s time we started synthesizing our food, instead of killing it. No, I’m not talking about the food synthesizers of Star Trek, but that would be nice, but instead this is about growing all our food. Some of the futurist organizations I have studied are working on a mushroom type spore that grows from seed to maturity in about 3 weeks. My uninformed logic thinks that what results is kinda like tofu, which is primarily soy beans. I have grown to like tofu especially since it takes on the flavor of whatever it is mixed with.

They say that a pork chop can be made from this new food media in three weeks, start to finish. Whereas it takes a pig six months and thousands of pounds of feed to do the same. But, even in that process they fart so much methane that they are considered a threat to our atmosphere.

I know that movies like Soylent Green have put a strong bias against synthesized food, but maybe it is finally time to cut ourselves out of the food chain of “eat or be eaten”.