[lit-ideas] Re: Alternative food sources

On 2004/08/30, at 12:39, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I think the vat-grown is too unnatural, too close to soylent green, too
> suspicious (how do I *know* what it is that I'm eating??).  It would 
> certainly
> creep me out.  It's too close to the laboratory (neither the wild nor 
> home) for me.

For an alternative view, I recall one of the characters in Bruce 
Sterling's science fiction novel _Islands in the Net_, who refuses to 
eat anything but chemically reconstituted petroleum. He argues that all 
natural foods have evolved over millions of years to be poisonous to 
predators--how could you possibly take the risk of eating that stuff.

John


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