[ExI] deathless meat

[Tim Halterman]

Yes autotrophy is a more appropriate term, thanks.   Although I would prefer
to consume/absorb the materials myself and cut out the middle man I do
understand the need for people to have their meat.  I think a more
efficiency focused design (versus making the deathless meat look/taste
right) could go a long way to avoiding excess waste and useless byproducts
currently produced by our food system.  While this deathless meat is a
positive concept I think it's important we look down the entire process
chain from origin to excrement.

-Tim

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/9/3 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> > 2011/9/2 Tim Halterman <timhalterman at gmail.com>
> >> Has anyone seen anything regarding the feeding of cells with material
> from
> >> non-living entities?
> >
> > As in autotrophy?!!
> > And, btw, I am confused about what a "non-living entity" might be.
>
> "Entity" is confusing here.  I think Tim meant more like autotrophy: how
> to culture and feed the meat tissues using only nutrients not created by
> or extracted from another living thing.  (So, "entity" would include a bare
> rock asteroid, which that term does not normally include.)
>
> A useful context would be to consider a space colony - free floating, or
> perhaps lunar.  (Martian introduces some variables...)  It's got an input
> flow of raw materials, primarily from asteroid/lunar mining.  How does
> it convert this into meat in the most efficient way, so as to provide
> maximum nutrition for its inhabitants with minimum loss?
>
> Thing is, it's probably okay if that takes multiple steps.  And, given the
> quantity of energy and material flow that can be obtained, some degree
> of inefficiency can be tolerated at first, before there are decades of
> refinement on this technology.
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