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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MiloMorai on October 20, 2022, 08:49:12 AM
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Algae offer potential for sustainable future food
By Jordan Gaal
AUSTIN, Texas — It’s salty, yet subtle, green, and crunchy. It has more calcium than milk, more potassium than a banana, and more iron than beef. And with new technologies that speed its transition from a health supplement to a widely accepted food, microalgae could play a critical role in feeding a rapidly expanding global population.
The world will have to feed 2 billion more people by 2060 by producing a staggering 70 percent more food. Three researchers studying microalgae explained why these tiny photosynthetic cells could be the solution during a Feb. 18 session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting.
Algae are a broad category, including single-celled organisms that harvest the sun’s energy and turn it into oils, proteins, and carbohydrates. Growing them in a bioreactor — a tank-like apparatus where the complex biological processes of algal growth are optimized — can result in zero waste and limited land and water use, unlike traditional food production. Smaller-scale production compared with commodity crops leads to challenges such as low efficiency and high investment costs. But if the technology for scaling up production and increasing efficiency can be developed, algae have the potential to be integrated into food sources worldwide.
If current consumption patterns continue, in just over 40 years the food system will support a mere 5.4 billion people – much less than today’s population, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health at the ETH Zurich university.
“We need to rethink our food system and need to significantly innovate,” said Alexander Mathys, a food technologist at the Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health. “We need to team up to tackle such big challenges.”
more https://www.nasw.org/article/algae-offer-potential-sustainable-future-food
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Enjoyed that flick just the other day while WFH
Made me wonder why it's immoral and if it will stay that way in the future
Eagler
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal)
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Insects and grubs could be added for variety.
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They should dig up Chuck Heston, Chuck Connors, Joe Cotton and Eddie G. Robinson to remake it.
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If we can sprinkle it on the cheeseburgers, I'm down!
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If we can sprinkle it on the cheeseburgers, I'm down!
Why would you be down?
You do know that algea is in food right now.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal)
Not talking about killing and eating the living but making funeral homes into drive through burger joints...some sort of luncheon meat...my guess is we'd never know the difference
Eagler
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Not talking about killing and eating the living but making funeral homes into drive through burger joints...some sort of luncheon meat...my guess is we'd never know the difference
Or abortion clinics. Waste not, want not.
Would you like a side order of pickled fetus?
Ever seen a jar of pig knuckles?
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pickles can't suck enough, they ruin everything they touch
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Ever seen a jar of pig knuckles?
Pounds of protein and fat without having to tap that but I see some with bizarre cravings...
It would look like baloney not something at the country store counter
With the right setup we might not even know its happening, look at Ole Charles...took him the entire movie to figure it out...
We would need larger garage trucks these days. :)
Eagler
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Everything is recycled in time, everything.
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pickles can't suck enough, they ruin everything they touch
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I used to make these afterschool as a snack. ;)
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12887-peanut-butter-and-pickle-sandwich (https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12887-peanut-butter-and-pickle-sandwich)
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OMG.
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why not fry us some of them mice that are being killed in the labs. will help with the disposal.
semp
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why not fry us some of them mice that are being killed in the labs. will help with the disposal.
semp
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MiloMorai, there is a book you might very much enjoy:
The Millennial Project, by Savage
It is about mankind colonizing space. Among its many fascinating topics is algae.
It is one of my favorite books.
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Plants cannot support a healthy self-replacing human species. We'll all go mad.
Bet you the Gates family will always have beef.
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Saw 3d printed beef on the news
Yummy!
Something needs to be done as I don't think there's a size past super sized human...you would think the health care bill will be unaffordable as they wobble into the ER
Between physical and mental health issues the future looks bright.. :cool:
Eagler
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They should dig up Chuck Heston, Chuck Connors, Joe Cotton and Eddie G. Robinson to remake it.
Arlo made a funny!