Posted on 04/15/2020 12:23:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
One potential alternative food source – both for humans and the animals we eat – is algae.
Humans have eaten macroalgae, like wakame and nori seaweed, for thousands of years. But recently attention has turned to the nutritional and environmental potential of their microscopic cousins.
Microalgae are tiny protein-rich organisms found in both fresh and seawater. They typically contain essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, including omega-3, omega-6 along with omega-7, along with vitamins, such as A, D and E. The nutritional content varies depending on the type of microalgae, but two currently dominate the market for human consumption. The first is a group of species (known as a “genus”) called Chlorella. The second is the genus Arthrospira, more commonly known as “Spirulina”. Both are rich in nutrients.
Last year, Tzachor visited a small-scale microalgae farm in Iceland run by Israel-based company Algaennovation. The farm uses geothermal electricity to power LEDs that light transparent tubes called photobioreactors.
The site, which started out as a trial, has been fully operational since July 2019. Instead of being cultivated for human food, the algae grown at Algaennovation is fed to fish in aquaculture, replacing unsustainable fishmeal – wild fish caught in the millions of tonnes every year in order to feed farmed fish. Algae make a great alternative because they are rich in omega-3, which fish can’t produce themselves, and so need to get it from their diet.
Tzachor says while the system is based on geothermal energy currently, it could also work using hydroelectric power plants, meaning it could be replicated in many other parts of the world.
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Algae? Not for me, I’m a Seaweed man.
Soylent green
You beat me by seven seconds.
Soylent Green was not a how to manual.
Great - feed my share to cows.
liberals want everyone living in caves, eating algae, walking everywhere-
Guess they can’t stand progress-
Just wait until humans are eking out a meager existence in exoplanetary caverns, holes deep in the Moon and Mars shielded from cosmic rays by tens of meters of rock, and when any die they are dumped into a big decomposition tank in which is grown algae for dietary consumption.
But at least they won’t actually be eating the Soylent Green people.
Green sludge goes well with pink slime.
The Aztecs relied on algae. They became cannibals.
Leftism is a mental illness.
Eating green slime??? Probably tastes better than a slimy demoncRAT
McDonald’s tried that with the McLean DeLuxe. It didn’t go well.
I’m the Slime - Frank Zappa
I am gross and perverted
I’m obsessed ‘n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I’m the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can’t look away
I make you think I’m delicious
With the stuff that I say
I’m the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I’m the slime oozin’ out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don’t need you
Don’t go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That’s right, folks
Don’t touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin’ along on your livin’ room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can’t stop the slime, people, lookit me go
I am the slime from your video
Oozin’ along on your livin’ room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can’t stop the slime, people, lookit me go
More bacon and steak for me.
LOL, never listened to much Zappa. Spot on, even though coming from a character that named his children “Moon Unit” and “Dweezel”!!
... is people.
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