MycoTechnology seeks to answer a problem that has dogged food
scientists
for the last three decades, which is how to maintain a product’s taste
while cutting back on sugar.
I have an even simpler concept: let people eat food, instead of
products*, and take care of both public health and "the small farmer"
at the same time.
Of course, this idea sounds too simple: what's wrong with it?
-Dave
* having just read John Sundman's Activate! transcript, and with
tongue firmly in cheek: if our worker bees are getting obese, the
problem is obviously that we're providing them with calories which
have been produced at no small expense, but whose metabolism is not
getting captured in gross domestic product. While I wouldn't go so
far as suggesting summer glove or boot production, my modest proposal
is simply that we make use of this calorie surfeit, and do whatever
splicing is necessary for the drones to synthesize suitable pharma
products as a side effect of their normal metabolisms. Done
properly, one might be able to arrange that they synthesize anti-
obesity drugs, and charge them coming and going: firstly, for the
using the intellectual property during the drug synthesis (a little
parallel luciferase production should help avoid anyone attempting to
claim they are not synthesizing), and secondly, for benefiting from
the treatment itself.
