Wednesday, May 22, 2013

3-D Printing Food

Yes, we could end world hunger with the 3-D printer, so long as people change their perception of what qualifies as food. (Or that’s what a news report I saw yesterday claims.) 
I mean, we already know that 3-D printers are being used to create human parts like ears and such by using human cellular material. And if we just make that into a steak shape, then we could eat it! Of course, we’d technically be cannibals, but so what? We wouldn’t hurt or kill anyone (unless we really developed a taste for it and couldn’t wait for the next printout!), and it would be a way to make Soylent Green without making it out of dead people. But it would still be people, technically, in theory, right? And so Charlton Heston could still rant and rave about it being people, and nobody would care! I’m getting hungry even now just thinking about it. And for gun control activists who hate Charlton Heston, we could use his genetic material to make a “cold, dead hand”, and they could eat that out of hostility over his NRA stuff. Think of how cathartic, and delicious, it would be for them!

Here’s the mouth-watering, printed story: