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Hemos
on from the soylnet-green-is-made-from-people dept.
ihnm writes "Science Daily has a story on the harvesting of the first soybeans grown in a space station. Does this mean McDonald's will start selling Space Burgers?"
soya - cows - burger - major waste
by
DrSkwid
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Feeding soy beans to cows to make meat is one of the grossest misuse of resources in farming.
5,000 gallons of water per pound of beef.
When water is becoming a scarce commodity it makes no sense.
-- There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Re:soya - cows - burger - major waste
by
gerf
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I was born and raised on a farm, so i know a bit about this.
If water is scarce, it is more expensive. So, cattle, and other water intensive things are usually done where there's a lotta water. like the midwest. You don't see nearly as many cattle around in the desert anymore, do ya
The real problem with water and food useage isn't that there isn't enough. God no. It's getting the food to the people who need it. there's two reasons this is hard
1.) We'd have to ship all this food/water hundreds and thousands of miles through bad areas, with little roads or rails. think Somalia here.
The people who need it can't afford it, and we can't just give away everything we have all the time. we're not a socialist nation, us americans (we have the biggest surplus of food though).
So, if you want to become a vegetarian, this is truly the right reason. but please, be sensical about it, and don't talk about what you don't know
Good source for interstellar travel
by
(trb001)
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I know they say they're researching this to make soybeans "cheaper and better for the consumer", but I gotta believe that they're second goal (if not their primary) is to find a way to grow food during interstellar travel. That's always been one of the biggest problems facing astronauts, you COULD get to Mars, but it would take 10 years and you wouldn't be able to pack that much food. If they could grow food, though, people can live off of an all vegetable diet. Heck, you can breed animals given a renewable source of vegetable food for them.
I allways knew the space program was run by those damn liberals. I mean, why would they be growing soy beans? I'll tell you why:
Tofu!
They want our astronauts to eat Tofu. And drink soy milk. And eat "healthy". Dammit, what happened to feeding them steak. You think Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier and then went for a nice vegetarian stir fry with extra tofu? You think Neil Armstrong was missing his veggy shake while wandering around the moon. I think not!
I say we start a campaign to get some cows up there. Our boys need meat!
If even our astronauts start eating tofu then all is lost. "Come on dear, even Buzz Aldrin eats tofu, why can't you?" I'll have no excuses left. I'll have to start eating that stuff. Aarrgh!
Come to think of it, can we get them to grow some hopps up there?
-- People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this.
Scientists Shocked at Data
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selectspec
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· Score: 5, Funny
Scientists scramble to understand the revelations exposed by the data gathered in this experiment: At nearly 15 million dollars per soy bean, growing soy beans in space is really expensive compared to growing them on the ground.
This shockwave rippling through NASA has put into doubt future projects, such as the herding goats on the moon project, the orbiting retirment home, and NASA's holy grail, the Europa Mineral Water bottling company.
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Feeding soy beans to cows to make meat is one of the grossest misuse of resources in farming.
5,000 gallons of water per pound of beef.
When water is becoming a scarce commodity it makes no sense.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I know they say they're researching this to make soybeans "cheaper and better for the consumer", but I gotta believe that they're second goal (if not their primary) is to find a way to grow food during interstellar travel. That's always been one of the biggest problems facing astronauts, you COULD get to Mars, but it would take 10 years and you wouldn't be able to pack that much food. If they could grow food, though, people can live off of an all vegetable diet. Heck, you can breed animals given a renewable source of vegetable food for them.
--trb
I allways knew the space program was run by those damn liberals. I mean, why would they be growing soy beans? I'll tell you why:
Tofu!
They want our astronauts to eat Tofu. And drink soy milk. And eat "healthy". Dammit, what happened to feeding them steak. You think Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier and then went for a nice vegetarian stir fry with extra tofu? You think Neil Armstrong was missing his veggy shake while wandering around the moon. I think not!
I say we start a campaign to get some cows up there. Our boys need meat!
If even our astronauts start eating tofu then all is lost. "Come on dear, even Buzz Aldrin eats tofu, why can't you?" I'll have no excuses left. I'll have to start eating that stuff. Aarrgh!
Come to think of it, can we get them to grow some hopps up there?
People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this.
Scientists scramble to understand the revelations exposed by the data gathered in this experiment: At nearly 15 million dollars per soy bean, growing soy beans in space is really expensive compared to growing them on the ground.
This shockwave rippling through NASA has put into doubt future projects, such as the herding goats on the moon project, the orbiting retirment home, and NASA's holy grail, the Europa Mineral Water bottling company.
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