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Wouldn't you need a rumen to make it work tho? Maybe you could make some kind of bioreactor and eat from that... Appetizing!
by nielsbot 4y ago
Wouldn't you need a rumen to make it work tho?
Maybe you could make some kind of bioreactor and eat from that... Appetizing!
- maxerickson 4y agoHistorically, humans have used cattle (and other ruminants) to digest cellulose.
- eru 4y agoMushrooms also work, don't they?
- aaron695 4y agoIt's thought we can digest some cellulose already. And there's no reason to not think we couldn't increase that. For the general population digesting more fibre would bad, but to be able to eat leaves and grass for a while would be interesting. Humans have intestinal bacteria that degrade the plant cell walls in herbivores https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661373/