[extropy-chat] From soy & lentils to Soylent specials

[Lifespan Pharma Inc.]

Where I live the cost of energy to operate sandy loam soil land in an 
environment where water limits production to
about 800-2000 pounds of grains per year is pushing the conversion of 
much land into low energy in hay and livestock
use the difference between alternative uses is climate, specificaly 
water availability and instability of climate.

Melting the polar caps, controlling the variations in and extremes of 
temp and rainfall would be the first steps to
changing the land uses.

With that bioengineered life with high productivity and short life 
cycles might be used to replace large long life cycle
cows , pigs, chickens etc.

One small thing about using "soylent" food sourced  biology should never 
be forgotten.

The feeding of same species biomass back to same species.... rendered 
cows and chickens back to cows and chickens
showed its risks with the emergence of BSE in cattle.   So using human 
biochemistry in food production technology
, while creating biocompatible proteins  runs the risks of making for an 
environment where the viruses, bacteria etc
which could develop to ravage these protein factories could run rampant 
in humans because of the bio-similarity
of the human host.

The species barrier is a good thing in food production from a bio-hazard 
standpoint.