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One of the big trends in current nutritional thinking is that we should eat natural, whole foods... and processing foods, even when done to enhance nutritional
by dbecker 14y ago
One of the big trends in current nutritional thinking is that we should eat natural, whole foods... and processing foods, even when done to enhance nutritional qualities, has been a major mis-step.
In-vitro meat and printing steaks on 3d printers sound like a steps in the wrong direction.
- stdbrouw 14y agoWhy would a "natural" steak be intrinsically better than an "unnatural" steak? And what does that have to do with current nutritional thinking?
- dbecker 14y agoThe most popular author claiming natural foods are better is Michael Pollan (who is admittedly a writer rather than a scientist, but whose views appear to be widely shared in the scientific community). Googling will show as many links as you could possibly want, but you might start with http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....
- stdbrouw 14y agoMy point was more basic: current nutritional thinking does not and cannot make any claims about a food type which doesn't yet exist, and food is not good or bad simply because it belongs to a certain category like "natural". (That said, thanks for the link.)
- dbecker 14y agoThe claim is basically that humans are incapable of manufacturing healthy food. You may disagree with the premise, but the conclusion "food manufactured on a 3d printer will not be healthy" does follow logically from it.