Opinion: 3D printing could fundamentally change our relationship with food

The Montreal Gazette ^ | June 18, 2015 | Sylvain Charlebois, Special to Montreal Gazette

[2ndDivisionVet]

Insect flour?

[dinodino]

No thanks. I’ll pass on 3D-printed confit du canard.

[freedumb2003]

>>Insect flour?<<

It is quite nutritious, is abundant and is, when processed, tasteless.

It could end world hunger

[doc1019]

So could soylent green.

[2ndDivisionVet]

My problem with it is that us peons will be expected to eat it while the elite still consume steak, lobster, sea bass and regular pasta.

[freedumb2003]

>>My problem with it is that us peons will be expected to eat it while the elite still consume steak, lobster, sea bass and regular pasta.<<

That is MY plan, anyway.

[freedumb2003]

>>So could soylent green.<<

Soylent yellow always got short shrift.

[DakotaGator]

From the article; "One of the ways to responsibly address global food security challenges is to consider technology as a primary source for sustainable solutions, and to continue to consider alternatives to established food-production systems as mere fads may not be the best approach."

This is liberal egghead-speak for the common man eating dirt while the elites eat real food. It is Malthusian nonsense!

But if government gets ahold of it, beware. It is their wet dream of centralized control over our food.

[Proud2BeRight]

How much for the software for a deep dish pizza?

[WKUHilltopper]

Yeah, it will probably change my world—in that I’ll be making even more meals from scratch.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Pizza pronto! Vending machine that rustles up a fresh pie in just THREE minutes...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3189482/posts

[cripplecreek]

Ah did not have relations with that Turkey.

[Jim from C-Town]

And people cringe at the thought of what hot dogs are made of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBv-qIAtW5A

[ecomcon]

MMmmm...Corn

[cripplecreek]

Don’t eat the soylent brown man.

[DugwayDuke]

I seem to remember a sci fi story from the 70s, Heinlien, i think. Story line was a capability to create needed body parts but the problem was the parts would dissolve if more than a mile or so from the thing that made them. Anyway, part of the story was that many people benefited from artificial hearts/limbs/etc.

Now to get back on topic, the whole thing was paid for by a restaurant which featured all sorts of delicacies created by the same thing that created the artificial body parts. You could eat all you wanted but it all disappeared once you left a certain radius.

Anyway, reminds me of this story.

[LoneStar42]

Soylènt Green?

[freedumb2003]

A CLASSIC! (lol!)

[PA Engineer]

Yeah, it will probably change my world—in that I’ll be making even more meals from scratch.

So true.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah, it will probably change my world—in that I’ll be making even more meals from scratch.

My garden gets bigger every year. Articles like this assure that it will keep growing as long as I can do it.