Hmm a multi national telling us to put something else into our system by abandoning what nature has selected and evolved for humans over millions of years in one go? Lemme guess so that its directors could earn more paper?
Gotta grease our guns!!!.
Mentee bhai, it is Nature itself which has given us the ideas to evolve our food obtainment habits whether it by Vertical Farming which I have written below or by lab-grown meat.
About earning more paper, perhaps Leonardo can help towards making this into a business model where the basic technology is made open source like Linux OS or generic drugs.
Even if we speak about the poster boy of space exploration - Elon Musk - his company is currently building the Starship spacecraft which can technically 100 people from Earth orbit down to Mars and it is building the booster rocket Super Heavy which will carry Starship to Earth orbit. The combination will be flown to Earth orbit for test by this year's end. The company says that it will send an unmanned Starship to do a flyby orbit of Mars possibly by 2022 and a possible unmanned landing of Starship by 2024 and human landing before 2030.
In that time other companies in various countries will have learnt from the experiences of SpaceX and and the simplifications it will create and will possibly land humans on Mars by 2035 or so. There are currently three private companies in India which are either building complete rockets that can travel to low Earth orbit or are building in-space propulsion engines.
There is also research going on about novel, non-chemical methods to do a faster travel to Mars.
Watch
this promo vid of the Terran R big, fully reusable rocket that is being 3D Print developed by the American company Relativity Space and is expected to fly by 2024. There is an youtube interview of the company's founder Tim Ellis and a round of his factory but I am unable to find it but go through
this thread about posted some months ago. In the interview Tim speaks of Mars settlement.
Mars is one of the next things for humanity. By 2035. Please accept this.
As an opponent of capitalism and a socialist, would you support something like GMO's, considering that these have been designed and introduced by none other than unscrupulous multinational corporations of the food industry, which cannot be expected to worry about long term consequences on consumer health? And please forget about "study papers" financed by these same corporations, since they are often either concocted by bought-off scientists or by some ghostwriter from the corporation, publishing under the name of a bought-off laboratory or scientist.
Yes AFAIK there is valid concern about multinational corporations like Monsanto and Cargill trapping farmers into bondage by making them use GMOs that can be maintained using chemicals only of that specific company and some scientists secretly talking for those companies. But the concept of GMO itself is not bad. It can be seen the same like the concept of Grafting of plants. Both are harmless, actually beneficial by themselves.
GMO and Grafting can be included in growing crops using the current development called Vertical Farming and general Urban Farming. VF is the future of plant food growth, whether on Earth or elsewhere. Please see my recent writing on this in
this post ( scroll down the post ).
And imagine the situation when in 15 years when GMOed plus mechanically-assisted olive and palm trees and grass begin growing on the otherwise non-helpful grounds on Mars.
They kill animals more brutality, it gives them more taste,
I born in Muslim family, i hate too much Halal and Koshar meat.
I prefer vegetables, and i think lab meat will be good in near future.
I share your sentiments. I like meat and I would eat it more without guilt if the system brings about lab-grown meat. If technology makes the killing of the animal unnecessary it will be fantastic. The meat will remain the same, as natural, only the method to obtain it will become better.
