Posted on 03/10/2017 4:19:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We ate some weird s**t in 2016. A person born in the year 1000 AD definitely wouldn’t comprehend a Dorito. He certainly wouldn’t understand why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and if you showed him a Twinkie, he’d probably burn you at the stake. But the way things are headed, our food is bound to get a lot weirder.
Scientific research doesn’t just bring us more convenient and cheaper food options, but the hope of overcoming sustainability issues, too. The meat industry plays a huge role in climate change—around 10 percent of America’s total greenhouse gas emissions came from the agriculture sector in 2014, with almost a third of that climate-warming carbon attributed to methane from cattle, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Meanwhile, Earth’s population is growing fast, and many are fretting about how to feed the 9 billion people who will be inhabiting the planet in 2050.
Here are some foods that scientists and companies are tinkering with today, which are poised to make a showing on dinner plates or in lunch boxes in the not-so-distant future....
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Odds are in 30 years I’ll not be eating anything
‘Soylent green is people!!!”
Soylent green.
Beat me to it.
I’d pay lots of money to just witness the day the President Trump goes into LA and announces:
“The Scoops are on the way!
MAGA baby!
Looking forward to ‘steakon’ - a combination of steak and bacon.
I was gonna say, should we post pics of 9 weird worms that will be eating us?
...if you showed him a Twinkie, he’d probably burn you at the stake...
It’s always bugs.
They always say we will be eating bugs. It’s always 30 years from now.
1987 was 30 years ago. 1927 was 90 years ago.
We eat pretty much the same.
The common earthworm?
Perhaps I’ll still get to go fishing. :>)
I am with you. Makes me glad to get old if I had to eat that bug stuff.
I stopped reading at “climate change.”
That looks like what people ate 100000 years ago. Dead insects? Gross stuff?
I want a nourishing pill that fills me up with long lasting tastes, t-bones, banana splits, etc.
Guess what? I don't like Doritos, detest boxed cereals and I've literally never had a twinkie. Plus I consider bread just some kind of delivery platform for meat.
You really wouldn't go back to 1000 to find people who will seriously resist any more Fake Food. are lots of us who want our food to be real. Some of us are even Freepers.
We’ve had synthetic meat for a long time. It’s called Spam—the acronym for Synthetic Processed Artificial Meat.
If I’m alive in 30 years I hope to be enjoying some delicious Santo beef and perhaps some steamed coconut crab claws with butter and a squeeze of lemon. A side order of spinach and some yams would do nicely.
Zero chance I’ll be reduced to (or tricked into) eating bugs.
I read that on one of the early US Army explorations of Mexico-California the soldiers were starving when they hit what is today Nevada.
They found a Piute or Digger Indian village which the Indians had just fled during the preparation of dried food.
The starving soldiers gobbled down all the food, then they found it was pulverized earthworms.
Starving or not, they immediately puked it back up.
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