Cmon, people! It's 2017 for fuck's sake! Why hasn't there been a breakthrough in the production of alternate food sources, like synthetic or non-organic foods? Why are we still eating shit that grows from the dirt?! Sad!
>>8499187
>non-organic foods
People eat gold leaf, does that count?
There has been. GMOs, stem cells etc and there's no shortage of people protesting them until they're blue in the face. Ironically these are the same people who will go on at length about how religion has hampered progress.
>>8499187
>it's the current year
fuck off
>be me
>go to grocery store
>still no Soylent substitute
Many such cases!
>>8499187
>shit that grows from the dirt?!
I'll bite.
Educate yourself on the ridiculous amounts of energy needed to produce anything edible, and where the food gets the nutrition that ends up in you, and then think about how the vast majority of our Earth's land is uninhabitated, on soil that can give up the nutrition, all under an endless source of energy.