On Friday 19 January 2007 13:30, Jed Rothwell wrote:
The lead story in today's Yomiuri newspaper (in Japanese) says that
Bush will announce new steps to address global warming in his State
of the Union speech on Jan. 23. He will emphasize ethanol and other
alternative fuels.
Sigh . . .
On Friday 19 January 2007 14:53, Jed Rothwell wrote:
leaking pen wrote:
Well, besides the issues that have been shown with too much corn
syrup . . .
As I said, one third of the people who will do not get enough to eat.
Too much corn syrup would be far better than starvation.
shipping foods
Thanks! Excellent and informative rant!
I had a question.
Standing Bear wrote:
The ribs are almost as flat as
a sheet of paper. I know of no pig or cow that has flat rib bones that have
edges sharp enough to cut a dinner roll and a thickness no more than three
millimeters and a width of
The lead story in today's Yomiuri newspaper (in Japanese) says that
Bush will announce new steps to address global warming in his State
of the Union speech on Jan. 23. He will emphasize ethanol and other
alternative fuels.
Sigh . . .
Well, at least there has been some anti-ethanol press
since part of the process of making ethanol is making corn syrup,
which converts a lot of the partially digested starches to sugars,
yes, actually, the whole process is likely more effecient to burn then
to eat. also, corn is already in just about everything we eat. we
grow more corn than we
leaking pen wrote:
since part of the process of making ethanol is making corn syrup,
which converts a lot of the partially digested starches to sugars,
yes, actually, the whole process is likely more effecient to burn then to eat.
Well, that's good.
. . . also, corn is already in just
Well, besides the issues that have been shown with too much corn
syrup, shipping foods grown here overseas not really all the
econmocal. better to get growing programs going, personally.
I fail to see how it uses more fossil fuels than fuels it produces,
please share.
And it will also help
leaking pen wrote:
Well, besides the issues that have been shown with too much corn
syrup . . .
As I said, one third of the people who will do not get enough to eat.
Too much corn syrup would be far better than starvation.
shipping foods grown here overseas not really all the econmocal.
That type of growing would be what i meant by more efficient. agreed.
a single multistory building with perfect climate and soil control
would be great. hell, run pigs and cattle on the top floor, and drop
fertilizer down.
On 1/19/07, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
leaking pen wrote:
leaking pen wrote:
That type of growing would be what i meant by more efficient. agreed.
a single multistory building with perfect climate and soil control
would be great.
Except that you cannot produce ethanol from that because the light
from indoor agriculture has to be artificial. There
Jed Rothwell wrote:
I hope that we
can soon grow meat in vitro, instead.
- Jed
...or Star Trek style replicators
to make any kind of food you want.
Harry
Harry Veeder wrote:
...or Star Trek style replicators to make any kind of food you want.
In the far distant future -- thousands of years from now -- I expect
that something like replicators will exist, and they will make
anything we want. Any object, not just food. However, I am talking
Jed sez:
...
If in vitro or cultured meat pans out, and the product
tastes about as good as natural meat, or better, that I
for one would be happy to eat nonaturally grown meat
ever again. I am not a vegetarian, but I sympathize with
their concerns. I am a hypocrite about this. So as
OrionWorks wrote:
I believe the esteemed Mr. Clark also suggested we should stop
burning petroleum and learn how to eat it as well. ;-)
He did, and it is a darned good idea. Actually, for the most part we
do this already, since we use petroleum-based fertilizer.
Oil consumed as food also
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