• @Viking_Hippie
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    228 months ago

    Which is why I only eat rocks, being careful to only select the ones with no moss or lichen.

    It’s no kind of tasty and it’s murder (pun intended) on the teeth and jaws but totally worth it for being able to be holier-than-thou at the most insufferable vegans.

    • Björn Tantau
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      98 months ago

      I don’t vaccinate or take antibiotics because viruses and bacteria deserve to live as much as I do!

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      58 months ago

      Most of what we eat is just processed CO2 from the air and water. In theory you can capture CO2 from the air, add water, add in some trace elements, run it through a very extensive process and have Soylent coming out at the other end. Not cost effective, but should be possible.

      You could also start using artificially created cells to do the processing, so it’s not really alive as in evolved in nature and more like bio-robots.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        8 months ago

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        Yep, Soylent DOES come in green! It’s mint, though, not long pork…

        • @SlopppyEngineer
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          58 months ago

          Fun fact: to feed an adult, you need about one human body per year in terms of calories. In case of soylent green, every year one half of the population would have to eat the other half.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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          38 months ago

          The movie Soylent Green is based on the Harry Harrison novel, Make Room, Make Room! which is described on Wikipedia:

          Set in a future August 1999, the novel explores trends in the proportion of world resources used by the United States and other countries compared to population growth, depicting a world where the global population is seven billion people

          This wasn’t exciting enough, so turning Soylent Green into people meat was added to the movie for extra drama. Normally it’s soy and lentils, ergo Soylent

          In Bladerunner 2049 bugs are farmed for protein, but we already eat bugs in additives which only offends religious people. And ever since the spice Melange turned out to be fermented worm shit, intentional food processing nightmares have been more subdued.

          However, in The Jungle documenting pre-PFDA meat production, rats, rat-poison and the occasional accidental fallen millworker all find their way into the sausage. It’s why you don’t want to know how the sausage is made.

    • @RatBin
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      38 months ago

      Basalt and rockpilled