[Farmer Dean]

Frankenfood?

[JRandomFreeper]

a small functioning kidney,

I'd like one of those please. In a medium-small, left side. And a spleen, if it's available.

I miss my left kidney. We used to talk...

/johnny

[Ouchthatonehurt]

1. Grow fruit
2. Harvest fruit
3. Chop fruit up
4. Dehydrate it
5. Pulverize it
6. 3-D print with it
7. Call it fruit

[cloudmountain]

I won’t gain weight on Frankenfood! Oh, goodie.

[bigbob]

that nut kid out in Santa Barbara shoulda just 3D printed himself up a girlfriend...

[exDemMom]

Given the substantial environmental impact of farming animals for food, this could be a welcome means of feeding a rising population while minimizing the damage to the planet. The new application of this process such that fruit can now be printed, not picked, by scientists is intended more for creative culinary experimentation than for a replacement of traditional food production methods.

Ah, we see the scientific illiteracy of the author on full display. Where does he think the material used to stock the printer comes from?

[Texicanus]

Aren’t we overlooking something here folks? Could we 3-D print me some real money or gold bars. I’ll buy my own fresh fruit.

Now replacement body parts is a whole different thing. I’d rather have the body parts than the money. Of course I would have to pay somebody to install them which brings me back to the money question.

[Texicanus]

Seriesly (sp), I could use a spleen, gall bladder, and a pancreas if that wouldn’t be too much trouble. It’s been 11 years since we last parted company.

[Organic Panic]

What’s the point of printed fruit. You still have to have a bag of fruit substance to extrude through the print nozzle.