[CrazyIvan]

My farm boy cousin had a college prof tell him that farmers would not be needed in the future. We would synthesize all our food out of soy beans.

[Texan5]

“synthesize all our food out of soy beans”

He must have been inspired by reading about the “totalcakes” in Ira Levin’s late 60’s novel “This Perfect Day”-they came in a couple of flavors, and the accompanying soft drinks were called “cokes”...

[Texan5]

Just out of curiosity, where did this prof think the soybeans would come from? Was some guy named Jack going to climb the giant’s beanstalk to get them?

[thecodont]

My farm boy cousin had a college prof tell him that farmers would not be needed in the future. We would synthesize all our food out of soy beans.

An overload of phytoestrogens from soy will wreak havoc with the human body.

Also, soy requires more processing (and more this more agriculural industrial infrastructure) for those "natural" foods -- tofu, oil, "soymilk" etc.

You can get REAL milk and REAL meat from a cow -- no processing required!

[infowarrior]

My farm boy cousin had a college prof tell him that farmers would not be needed in the future. We would synthesize all our food out of soy beans.

At which point, it is to be hoped your cousin asked this brain dead moron "Where are these soybeans to be used in the synthesis going to come from?"

the infowarrior

[ROCKLOBSTER]

We would synthesize all our food out of soy beans.

So who was going to "synthesize" the soy beans?