Please don’t add the byproduct to my food, put it in the ground to decompose
Your food is already 99% hydrocarbons.
Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
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Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#72"Even that sandwich you're eating is made from old, recycled sandwiches!"
Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#73Someone needs to figure out how to convert mineral oil into food. If it could be done, we solve world hunger overnight. Oddly many countries explicitly have a law that such a thing is forbidden. I wonder it it was preemptively protecting farmers?
In WW2 Germany invented a way to convert coal into an edible, butter-like substance. I think it was very inefficient though (70 to 1 input/output ratio).
Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#74Wasn't there a heinlein or dick story about some bacteria that evolved to eat all the paper so humanity couldn't have books anymore? Like everything is made of plastic, do we want it to start getting moldy?
Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#75Assuming this works, now they just have to convince people to eat plastic
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#76Isn’t this the plot of The Andromeda Strain ?
Crimes of the Future also had people eating plastic bricks
Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#77Assuming this works, now they just have to convince people to eat plastic
I mean, aren't we all do that already?
Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#78Assuming this works, now they just have to convince people to eat plastic
I mean, aren't we all do that already?
There was a paper some month ago, showing that (through biopsie) that most people have around 8 - 10g of microplastic in their brain (thats around 1.5 - 2 standard credit cards)
Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#79Isn’t this the plot of The Andromeda Strain ?
No, the plot of The Andromeda Strain is about a low orbit bacterium that clots blood very quickly but is extremely sensitive to blood pH.
Re: Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
#80Is this presented by The Yes Men! by any chance?