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The plague of hunger upon humans is not due to
overpopulation. Overpopulation is induced from a percieved
food shortage. It is the selfish demand for fresh food that
leads food to perish while millions worldwide slouch starving
in their own muck.
If all food produced was immediately processed
into a viable
dehydrated powder form, immense quantities of food could be
stockpiled. In the beginning of implementing this new law
people will first subside on loaves and cakes. However before
long they will form gelatinous masses that will repicate those
fresh foods that insistemce for killed so many.
Fresh food would not be entirely restricted, however. People
can labour in the hot sun, bitten and sore tending to their
own garden for fresh carrots. They can do this in the
knowledge that 25 kg bags of carrot powder are neatly
stacked and waiting to be rehydrated into a thin but
nourishing broth.
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Where are you going to get the water to perform this
miracle? It's already accepted that there is not
sufficient clean water to provide everyone with
enough to live comfortably. |
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Freeze-dried humor, and flawlessly delivered. |
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That's the beauty of this plan. The water comes from the food! |
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Except for the title, I actually like the idea! You may have a rehydrated croissant! |
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Noble goal, workable idea [+], and it may save the energy used for running refrigerators.
But I hope that we would still be able to have enough of fresh food. |
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This posting was entirely to produce discord. Certainly zen-tom, your single carrot has not much effect, but everyone's insistence for freshness becomes an immense vacuous monster. Often areas that require famine relief export fresh food for foreign freshness fiends. |
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Other than the 'ban' part of this idea, I quite like it. If grinding and dehydrating eliminates bacterial problems, then the amount of vitamin rich biomass discarded by some places could easily feed small countries. |
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Question is, who foots the bill? |
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I cannot bone this enough. |
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Note to Unabubba: for water supply, see 'Recharging the Oglalla' |
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How does my UHT milk fit into this? I always considered this to be the height of common sense, but it would appear that my stockpile would be raided and destroyed during the early days of the implementation of this system. I also want to know where tins sit in the categorization. Presumably I could get dispensation for this. Perhaps Mitt Romney with his Mormon upbringing will be the first to institute this. (apparently Mormons must maintain a year supply of food in preparation for the second coming of their deity). I for one would love to see this happen in the US. From what I can tell of normal US cuisine, this is already well underway through frozen turkey strips and potato based deep fried products. |
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What [zt] said, but totally different: perhaps a 25km fresh-food distance: everything else to be soylentized when shipped in bulk. |
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//If grinding and dehydrating eliminates bacterial problems// |
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Of course it doesn't. Drying would reduce active bacterial load, but that's no where near enough. It doesn't even begin to destroy spores (bacterial or mold) or any of the many bacteria that encyst themselves under such conditions. |
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Grinding to the level of powdering would have absolutely no effect on bacterial loads. |
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Thats a steaming load of fresh produce meche. Powders
can be irradiated, powders can be added with
preservatives such as salts, powders can be compressed
into dense bricks that lack the conditions to support life.
Look at agar powder for example. If scientists only had a
stinking load of seaweed to conduct research we probably
would not have antibiotics today. But because that
seaweed is reduced down to a pure and bacteria free form
it can be used to carry out scientific experiments where
any trace of unwanted bacteria would present a problem. |
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Yes, irradiation sterilizes powders (although it's
still
iffy for some spores), but it also sterilizes fresh
food. It's also an expensive and resource
intensive
additional step to food production, which is
generally only used for high value fresh food
crops. I also didn't say that dry powders would
grow bacteria, they won't. But any attempt to
reconstitute the powders into edible food will
produce a nice nutrient broth, with the spores
already in. |
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I was responding specifically to the drying and
powdering process, which doesn't touch microbes.
(And for the record, I'm pretty sure agar is
generally
heat, not radiation, sterilized). |
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