The future of "synthetic food"

golinux · 2025-12-29 22:54:18

Last night on the NBC evening news they aired a segment titled "The Future of Food". Oh . . . the irony!! This certainly isn't referring to: https://thefutureoffood.com/

This version praises the future of "environmentally-friendly" synthetic foods like butter and meat created from carbon dioxide, methane and water for "plant and animal-free alternatives". They even highlighted a chef who is promoting and selling(?) this stuff! What a way to start the New Year!

"Savor" is the company mentioned in this clip but I imagine there are others who are also doing "synthetic food".

Here's the link:
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news-ne … 5091269972

Clip starts at: 15:34

Be sure to have a bucket nearby . . .

golinux

greenjeans · 2025-12-29 23:05:13

Uugh, we need a vomit emoji for that nasty stuff, I am VASTLY expanding our garden space in the spring!

@golinux do you like apple butter? We made a killer batch from our own (organic) apple trees.

golinux · 2025-12-29 23:45:22

I gave up trying to find an apple or any derivative product that tasted like an apple years ago. I remember picking apples along with the migrant workers just for fun when I was a kid and sinking my teeth into them moments after being picked. Now that is REALLY fresh, REAL food and before pesticides and all the Green Revolution nonsense!

Thanks for the offer! I would LOVE to taste a REAL apple again (or a "derivative" that is only apple without anything added) but . . . we aren't exactly neighbors . . .

HardSun · 2025-12-30 01:08:05

The only logical next step is to produce synthetic humans, thus doing away with the need for real humans.
A brave new world indeed!

golinux · 2025-12-30 16:03:23

HardSun . . . Aren't we already doing that? I have seen mobile, humanoid bots that can talk and industry is already salivating at the prospect of a workforce that doesn't require a salary . . .

Camtaf · 2025-12-30 17:41:27

No salary/wage = no sales!

golinux · 2025-12-30 18:30:02

If only! Automation hasn't slowed down the economy one bit. In fact, it has been flourishing for decades with shiny, new s*** produced with automation (baby bots).

HardSun · 2025-12-30 22:48:56

golinux wrote:

HardSun . . . Aren't we already doing that? I have seen mobile, humanoid bots that can talk and industry is already salivating at the prospect of a workforce that doesn't require a salary . . .

I suppose thats the plan, the top 1 percent dont want to have to rely on a human workforce.
In a way it could be a blessing, BUT who really wants to do slave labor in the mines or in factories making useless trinkets.
In all reality they (robots) will never be used for anything that really benefits humans in the long run.

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golinux · 2025-12-30 23:19:21

The other side of that equation . . . how are all those unemployed humans going to make a living to pay for food and shelter etc?

And newsflash . . . Most of what humans do doesn't benefit humans either . . .

HardSun · 2025-12-30 23:30:50

Elon Musk said we will all have universal basic income in the future so we wont have to work.
Just get the AI and robots to do all the work while we eat synthetic food, live in cubes and own nothing.

golinux · 2025-12-30 23:42:01

Or maybe Soylent Green?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

"Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian thriller film based on a novel by Harry Harrison. It depicts a future world where people eat human-derived wafers called Soylent Green, and a detective uncovers a conspiracy behind the product."

Don't get me started on Musk . . .

Calamity · 2025-12-31 07:52:58

Musk is a controlled opposition shill... Showed up in a fancy schmancy Novus Ordo Seclorum jacket yet people still think he's some kind of savior. He's a fake through and through.

Ah, Soylent Green... That's exactly what I thought about when I saw this thread. A must see for anyone who is excited about being fed 'maybe food'.
There's talk that they are already using our fellow humans as a 'secret ingredient' in hamburgers... Who knows, would not surprise me at all.

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