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06-21-2011, 09:24 PM
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Honestly, it's protein. People don't have any issues with drinking water that has previous been through a sewage treatment plant, the sea, then rained onto city streets, or even using plastic and paper that came from a bin, while this is like how people won't eat insects due to the taboo around them.
On the other hand, the need for this in the first places shows what a problem overpopulation is.
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06-22-2011, 09:02 AM
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Yes - I admit that most of the disgust this evokes stems from a taboo, but there is a point to that taboo of course, because obviously there is a risk for getting sick and diseases spreading if people get feces into their digestive systems. This is most likely what caused the present E.Coli epidemic in Germany and many people in the world suffer from E.Coli contaminated drinking water. If they really want to do that reprocessing, one would have to ensure that nothing dangerous could ever reach the product, that would include all bacteria, viruses but also harmful substances, medications, heavy metals, radiation, prions, allergogenic agents and so on. That's quite some task. Especially if done on an industrial scale in a market-economy which usually means that people want to save money, build cheaper machines that may fail and then contaminated "food" would be spread faster than they can claim a recall.
On a more philosophical side - I think this is cutting short the cycle of life and humans are again trying to appropriate more of lifes cycles. In a natural ecosystem, nutrients in the manure of one species feeds and passes through tens or hundreds of other species, millions of beings until they get recycled. To cut that short breaks that cycle. What I also think is that people will most likely not want to eat this stuff out of choice. I am pretty sure that this will end up either as food for the poor (which means that even less care would be taken for the correct processing as the process has to be cheaper even) or be mixed in secretly by some food companies into regular products under some nice euphemistic name. As I said "Soylent Green"  And yes, HNM, I think the fact that they are thinking of this really points towards that this world has reached another point where population hits a level that forces to rethink food options. Not good. On a funny sidenote - some people think that this is a conspiracy (overpopulation)  XD  - It seems there is a rule that there is a conspiracy to everything
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06-23-2011, 01:01 AM
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06-23-2011, 08:01 AM
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Certainly, people who can afford not to would still avoid it for the most part, but that is seen today when people avoid cheap and safe food for being produced more intensively (in agriculture, not even including battery farms here as they are different) for more expensive food produced with lower efficiency - while freedom of choice is a basic and inalienable right, this is the same again, there is just understandably more emotion over it. The safety oversight would have to be extremely stringent, - but then again, as I mentioned, water is already recycled from sewage processing and there is no problem there - it is just something that most people try to avoid thinking about, as the alternatives are impractical, expensive and environmentally damaging (such as shipping mineral water around the world). In environments like the ISS, people successfully survive on far smaller semi-closed systems without negative effects. Processing proteins into amino acids is essentially the biological equivalent of melting down and purifying aluminium, or pulping and reprocessing paper.
Honestly, it isn't something that should be needed to be done with food, as you said about the biological lifecycle then it causes disruption there. That doens't make it automatically somehow unsafe though.
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