Scientists say they've discovered a new food source that could save humanity in the event of nuclear war (kelp!)

Daily Mail ^ | 1-31-24 | MATTHEW PHELAN

[Liaison]

Sorry but I had to. Soylent Green is Human!!

[Jonty30]

Kelp and seaweed are plants, so there should be no qualms from anybody to eat them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Gotta get to the kelp farm. Need kelp! Must have kelp."

Wait a sec! I thought BUGS were going to save us. Bugs will survive anything.

[PGR88]

Bugs and kelp

will we at least be allowed ketchup?

[webheart]

You liked the dried kelp or the stores?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It's a LOT more appetizing when the Japanese prepare it...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Aren’t you the party pooper?! Nary a kelp farm is started and you’re through cold water on it.

Just kidding. You are thinking practically here. Like so many things that emerge from academia, they are littered with simple impracticalities that the pointy-headed ones don’t consider.

[gundog]

That weightless stuff? Yeah...in moderation. I could see smashing it up in salads, or on lots of things.

[GreenHornet]

Can I get fries with that?

[rfp1234]

Soylent Brown?

[gitmo]

Kelp isn’t a newly discovered food source. I’ve eaten store-bought kelp several times. It’s filling, but it tastes terrible.

[Openurmind]

“Wouldn’t a diet high in kelp lead to hyperthyroidism?”

Probably, but don’t worry, big pharma will make a drug to fix that. lol

[nuke_road_warrior]

After a nuclear war, who thinks the infrastructure or the trained personnel needed to harvest kelp and turn it into food would survive? If we are really, really lucky, the surviving technology will be mid eighteenth century. If not so lucky, sixth century post roman Europe. If really unlucky, the relative handful of survivors will be huddling in caves trying to survive the next ice age.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Worldwide global thermonuclear war is not going to happen. There just isn’t any reason for it. There is still the possibility of a limited nuclear war, but the bombs used in it are far smaller than the fusion weapons that would really foul things up.

Supervolcanoes and meteors and massive tsunamis from undersea earthquakes are a much bigger threat.

[mykroar]

With as much as their pushing bugs, why not cockroaches?

[sasquatch]

Kelp is what urchins eat.

[DannyTN]

The iodine in kelp would be helpful in the event of a nuclear war, until you overdose.

[Phoenix8]

Let’s figure out how to save 1/6 of Humanity. Or We could just avoid war by acting sensibly now and steeping back from the Russ/Ukr conflict. Dems/Nocons:

[TribalPrincess2U]

Will anything from the ocean be safe to eat?

Maybe I can find a cockroach. They survive anything!

[sasquatch]

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