3-D Printed Food?
May 22nd, 2013“So we eventually have to change our perception of what we see as food.”
That’s hilarious, considering what already passes as food for a lot of people.
I’ll take a pass, and continue slaughtering cows in my driveway. Oh! Funny story: Kids from a couple of dozen homeschooling families have a gymnastics class together once per week in town. Becky and I take Owen and Reed to this class and they love it. This week, a Ukrainian guy came up to me and said, “I know you from Farmlet. I learned how to slaughter my own cows from that post you put up about doing in one of your steers.” He also wanted to discuss the Country Living grain mill.
New Zealand: It’s a village… Especially for homeschooling, homekilling, grow-your-own-food weirdos.
Via: Quartz:
If eating something spat out by the same kind of 3D printers that are currently being used to make everything from jet engine parts to fine art doesn’t sound too appetizing, that’s only because you can currently afford the good stuff, says Contractor. That might not be the case once the world’s population reaches its peak size, probably sometime near the end of this century.
“I think, and many economists think, that current food systems can’t supply 12 billion people sufficiently,” says Contractor. “So we eventually have to change our perception of what we see as food.”
Research Credit: HPLovecraft666
This segues into why lately we have seen various news threads drumming for us effete Westerners to start eating insects for protein.
We won’t make it to 12 billion. Besides, that number’s not even right anymore, since the die-off began. I believe it was rounded down to somewhere slightly above 8 billion? Heck, they can’t even prove we’ve made it to 7 billion.