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Food and energy prices are on the rise and even in the USA masses struggle to buy food. It will only get worse with the weakening dollar and increasing energy costs. Of course there are other countries too...
Research bovine bacterium a bit more and get something that lives well in the human intestine.
Distribute a one-time pill for everyone to eat. After eating the pill, cellulose is somewhat digestible because the bacteria stay alive in the intestine. Now it's just an ego thing: eat grass, something culturally wrong like potatoes were once considered wrong.
As a quicker fix, eat a cow's first stomach or buy some bovine cultures and get them growing in a pail of grass (no oxygen), then eat lots of that stuff.
Here is a similar idea:
Survival_20Grass#1110421363
Downsides: (1) destroys food industry as we know it (imagine $3 bales of hay in supermarkets instead of $60 worth of cabbage), (2) reduces US's 'wealth gap' over the world, (3) fulfills certain end-of-world prophecies.
Survial Grass
Survival_20Grass
- another similiar idea [Bcrosby, Jun 28 2008]
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Every once-in-awhile this site invokes a 'Pleasantville' scene, in this case a black&white film of people "cutting the lawn" goat-style on Saturdays. (the other one was "time out bag", sidewalks littered with drawstring bags containing people who have had too much). There'd be enough methane produced to make population density unsupportable, though. |
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Is all that is needed a bacteria? I think even with the right bacteria our intestines aren't long enough to get any meaningful nutrition out of grass. |
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Can bacteria break them down? |
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Check out Wikipedia:
Cellulose, Cellulolysis, "..symbiotic anaerobic bacteria (like Cellulomonas).. " |
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Terminates do this too, and decomposition, fungi. |
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How many intestine-feet? Can the human body hold these guys without killing the bacteria or the human? I guess that's why I posted this instead of searching for venture capital.. |
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[ stuffs another clove of grass in mouth ] |
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