Posted on 08/11/2019 7:57:08 AM PDT by rktman
“Algae? But... isn’t that gross?” That’s what Rebecca White commonly hears from surprised people at her booth at trade shows, after the unsuspecting visitors find out the snack bar they just ate, and actually really liked, contains algae.
White is a research scientist at iWi, a nutrition company that runs one of the largest algae farms. She isn’t offering snacks filled with algae just to show people that the mossy greens can be added to food without making it taste or smell like pond water. The real mission is to discuss algae’s potential as a solution for a much bigger problem: the food security of our planet.
We will soon be running out of food. The projected population of the world in 2050 will require a 70 percent increase in food production, but we are already stretching our resources with the way we grow food today, a new United Nations report warned yesterday. Land is turning into desert, rising temperatures are cutting crop yields, and soil is becoming lifeless due to overuse. Seventy percent of the world’s available freshwater is used for agriculture and raising livestock. Livestock and the food they consume generate 14 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions from human-related activity, contributing to climate change, more droughts and land erosions. It’s a vicious cycle that experts say we are running out of time to break. “We need a farming revolution,” says Miguel Calatayud, the CEO of iWi.
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Yeah, someone hasn’t perused the aisles of walmart lately to see the skin and bones customers searching for something, anything to eat.
Because you want a science advisor who is incapable of having faith in Science. And... they've been on this exact terror tactic for at least 50 years now.
In 1973, Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because "210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many."
Yeah, we passed 280m in 1999, in 26 years, not 67 years... less than 1/2 the time of his brilliant predictions. And, oh yeah, we are still exporting massive amounts of food, even at 330m.
Leftists revel in discussing massive population losses. Mass death gives them a warm glow. That's why all the greatest mass murders of their own populations have all been performed by Leftists.
Just drove through the California Central Valley couple of days ago and was floored by the bounty and variety of that landscape, every inch of it under cultivation, none of it “organic”. Many replantings of nut tree groves taken out during the previous years of drought. Kids should be taught that farmers are heroes.
Soylent green is people. Soylent snack bar is algae.
Are those games any fun?
This is new?
Spirulina’s been marketed since the early ‘70s.
LOL!
Good way to get your iodine intake.
Bullshit.
“We will soon be running out of food.” - Thomas Malthus 1798
Maybe ‘Sandy O’ and Prince Charles should have a talk with Tommy boy?
Aside from them lying, many people don’t understand how much land is arable for food. (Flora & fauna)
In either the old or new Battlestar Galactica science fiction series, they raised algae on one of their “farm” ships to feed the “rag tag fleet.”
170 BILLION acres in Texas alone. 170 b ÷ 7 b people = 24 acres per person.... family of 5 = 120 acres.
With technology, conservation and hard work, this planet isn’t even close to full.
Is this a futuristic idea whose time has passed?
Klamath Falls, Oregon, has been making a cottage industry of marketing the blue-green algae harvested from (high-altitude, cold water) Klamath Lake for decades. But it hasn’t exactly made the Fortune 500.
It may be a good technique for space stations, both to raise some food and regulate the atmosphere of the station.
These people crack me up.
They’ve been making these same dire predictions for decades.
Meanwhile none of them look back at how we have increased our food supply over those same decades.
We’ll continue to do so.
We will find ways to desalinate, create new ways to do things, and feed our populace as it grows ten times it’s current size.
The real crisis is the Islamic and Chines devilish plans to destroy modern civilization for ideological purposes.
That is the only threat to modern civilization.
Yep. Good source. Potassium iodide is another thing which has been made expensive to procure in quantity.
Algae, maggots and jellyfish. That’s your future.
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