Have you heard about solar protein or other ‘food’ made from feeding carbon dioxide to microbes? Thanks to science , you will be able to eat the poop, I mean byproducts, of fermenting microbes. Yummy! And it will save the planet!
Solein is produced using a bioprocess where microbes are fed with gases (carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen) and small amounts of nutrients. The bioprocess resembles winemaking, with carbon dioxide and hydrogen replacing sugar as the source of carbon and energy, respectively.
https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/solar-foods-on-track-to-launch-air-and-electricity-based-protein-by-2023.html
The Solar Foods company in Finland has received $30 million in government grants since 2017 to develop their fermented microbe protein powder, Solein. Their materials say they are using a non-modified organism. They got the idea to make the microbial protein from NASA.
The goal is to replace food made by carbon-emitting cows and resource-intensive traditional farms with carbon-eating microbe protein. There’s only one small problem, you need electricity to make the protein. Solar Foods plans to use solar and wind generated electricity.
The progress of this extraordinary technology has been hailed by the environmental campaigner George Monbiot, who has made a TV documentary, Apocalypse Cow, broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK at 22:00 GMT on Wednesday. Monbiot is generally pessimistic about the future of the planet, but says Solar Foods has given him hope.
He said: “Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown.
“But just as hope appeared to be evaporating, ‘farmfree food’ creates astonishing possibilities to save both people and planet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51019798
The process uses industrial waste to feed the microbes. In other words , carbon captured from natural gas-burning plants. Creating protein doesn’t actually remove carbon, it recycles it. The carbon reduction happens by removing animals and farms.
Quick science lesson:
Carbon is the foundation of all life on Earth, required to form complex molecules like proteins and DNA. This element is also found in our atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon helps to regulate the Earth’s temperature, makes all life possible, is a key ingredient in the food that sustains us, and provides a major source of the energy to fuel our global economy.
The carbon cycle describes the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the Earth and then back into the atmosphere. Since our planet and its atmosphere form a closed environment, the amount of carbon in this system does not change. Where the carbon is located — in the atmosphere or on Earth — is constantly in flux.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/carbon-cycle.html
I gotta admit that the science involved in this is pretty ingenious. But I think I will stick with eating eggs, meat, and dairy for my protein. But all microbes aren’t bad. Without them and their byproducts, we would not have beer, wine, cheese, yeast bread, or chocolate!
Blue Skies and Green Pastures 
Chocolate? 🤨
That’s what the article said. I didn’t know either . 🧐
I’m sticking with what I eat that’s grown in the ground
No industrial waste-fed bacteria for you?
As appetizing as it sounds….
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Nope, nope, hard pass here. Even if I was thinking it might be a good idea (which I wasn’t) when they said industrial waste my mind hit the back of my skull trying to run away. When I was reading it the book and movie Soylent Green kept coming to mind. If you never heard of it look it up I read it decades ago in high school it is disturbing to say the least.
Like you I will stick to eggs, meat, and veggies, and fruit I don’t need to be eating bacterial poop which makes feel sick thinking about it. It also makes think of the bug eating craze a few years ago. Not eating bugs either not that I have a lot against most of them I just don’t want them in my food or as my food.
There’s actually a company called Soylent and they sell some kind of beverage. 🤣
I saw that awhile back and think that will be hard pass too. I don’t think I could trust any company that would take their name from that terrible book. lol
Like my brother says, if God did not want us to eat animals after the flood, why did He make them out of meat!? 😂
But this is meat , they say .
So was what they used in Soylent Green and well it was but, ewww so gross.
You know, the whole “cow fart” thing seemed to start off as a joke among conservatives mocking the most radical of environmentalists – they want to make the cows wear backpacks to capture their farts, lolwut! Now they take this stuff totally seriously, I guess, because they think there is money in marketing climate doom. I honestly cannot think of anything more disgusting than what the plant-based food movement and its insect/microbe/whatever offshoots have become. They are basically walking lab experiments now. And it’s pretty funny how the people who want nothing to do with meat are simultaneously obsessed with making stuff “feel” and “taste” like meat.
I remember reading about the birth of the home economics movement and how people became obsessed with physical perfection to the point they were encasing their salads in aspic and included marshmallows in virtually every dish. I feel like we are going through a similar mania right now. How would you like soy beans ten ways with a cricket flour cake for dessert? And no one can tell them this is not what the future looks like.
I’m thinking they really expect massive food shortages, after they institute their climate agenda assault on big agra, and are looking for a way to feed the masses. It dawned on me that all of the worlds problems are caused by multinational greed.