In a thread infected with the recursive Vo error, Harry Veeder < [email protected]> wrote:
> Growing plants for food may be energy inefficient, but eating animals > strikes me as indulgent > and unethical if we could chemical synethsize all our food needs. > I do not think it will be possible to synthesize food in the near future. Perhaps it will hundreds of years from now. For the next few hundred years I expect conventional biological methods will be used. For plants, this means production in food factories, probably with hydroponics. For meat, I predict it will mean in vitro production. See: http://www.new-harvest.org/default.php I believe rapid progress is being made in this field. I hope it succeeds, soon. I agree that it is cruel and unethical to eat animals if we have a humane alternative such as in vitro production. I expect the product of in vitro production will be healthier for the humans who eat it. - Jed
