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could "food printer" end world hunger?
Topic Started: Tue May 21, 2013 9:02 pm (100 Views)
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Call it food for thought. Or perhaps thought for food: NASA has given a six-month grant to a company developing what could be the world’s first 3-D food printer. And the project’s developer, reports Quartz, an online digital news site, believes the invention could be used to end world hunger.

Quartz explains that the printer is the brainchild of mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor. Being developed by Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corp., it will use proteins, carbohydrates and sugars to create edible food products.

Contractor says one of his primary motivations is a belief that food will become exponentially more expensive in the near future. The average consumer, he told Quartz, will need a more economically viable option.

Some alternative food source options that may be used with the printer include algae, duckweed, grass, lupine seeds, beet leaves and even insects, according to TNO Research, which is working with Contractor on the project.

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If it still requires energy, then it won't solve world hunger. There's already enough food in the world to feed everyone, it just isn't distributed very well.

If on the other hand it can create viable meat substitutes it will make a difference. Livestock rearing is a massively inefficient use of land and a major source of CO2 and methane- if we no longer reared cattle on industrial scales it would be a major step forward.
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It is amazing that Trek technology is coming true, in one way or another many years later. The ideas are there and it took someone like Gene Roddenberry at the helm to start this.
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To end world hunger, more people just need to follow in the footsteps of Norman Borlaug.
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I wouldn't eat it.
If Size Doesn't matter why don't they usually have three inch dildos???
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