1Cecrow
No animals were killed in the making of this genuine, non-vegan meatball:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/mammoth-meatball-cultivated-meat-1.6794390
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/mammoth-meatball-cultivated-meat-1.6794390
2krazy4katz
Weird. Why didn’t they just use the DNA from non-extinct animals? I’m not sure what crocodile meat smells like…
3MaureenRoy
It will be interesting to see the implications of lab-grown meatballs or other forms of lab-grown meat products for Earth's space exploration efforts. For example, NASA's current plans for human settlements on Mars call for all-vegetarian diets, since the transfer and maintenance of animal livestock is way beyond their funding limits.
Based on what medical researchers now know, an all-vegetarian diet would eliminate the vast threat of pandemic illness that accompanies Earth's incorporation of animal flesh into the human diet. If so, pandemic threats for our space travelers and pioneers on planets, some moons and some asteroids (Ceres?) will be a thing of the past.
For much of humanity, UN research shows the need for protein is over-rated. But elders sometimes develop a need for a high-protein diet. Here's a vegetarian recipe for high-protein pancakes:
1 1/2 cups white flour (Bob's white flour was used)
1/2 cup ground quinoa
1/4 cup ground flaxseed
1 heaping TBSP oat bran
1 tsp sea salt (far less polluted New Zealand sea salt was used)
2 cups plant-based milk (homemade almond milk was used)
3/4 cup chopped frozen or fresh organic blueberries
whites of two organic hen's eggs
up to 1/2 cup of spring water as needed if the resulting batter is too thick.
Mix the dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately. I beat the egg whites before adding the plant-based milk + then mixing all liquids together.
Depending on the pancake size, this recipe makes 15-20 pancakes. Any uneaten pancakes are well adapted to freezing for a future meal, with a small amount of nutrient loss from the freezing process.
We chop frozen blueberries before use since some frozen blueberries are quite big, so it becomes a safety issue otherwise, especially if your family includes young children. Why organic blueberries? Soft-skinned produce features a lot on the Dirty Dozen list of the US-based Environmental Working Group.
Eggs: We tried making these pancakes with whole eggs, but the resulting pancakes develop an unpleasant hardness ... plus our family must avoid the large amount of saturated fat found in egg yolks. Now that California mandates the collection of food waste in compostable bags for trash truck pick-up, our egg yolks go into the compostable bags. Why organic eggs? Organically raised chickens get better treatment overall and better animal feed. Example: In the USA it is legal to add arsenic to bird feed in order to control the birds' intestinal parasites ... I'd rather have arsenic-free eggs. Why not have a backyard poultry flock? Bloomberg News, NPR and other sources point out the much greater expense of raising chickens on-site over purchasing the eggs ... + having birds on-site also increases your family's risk of exposure to the avian flu pandemic ... not worth it?
This recipe is adapted from 2004's Laurel's Kitchen Recipes, from Ten Speed Press, a lower-cost edition of the Laurel's Kitchen cookbook, with some new recipes added. Laurel's Kitchen Recipes
Based on what medical researchers now know, an all-vegetarian diet would eliminate the vast threat of pandemic illness that accompanies Earth's incorporation of animal flesh into the human diet. If so, pandemic threats for our space travelers and pioneers on planets, some moons and some asteroids (Ceres?) will be a thing of the past.
For much of humanity, UN research shows the need for protein is over-rated. But elders sometimes develop a need for a high-protein diet. Here's a vegetarian recipe for high-protein pancakes:
1 1/2 cups white flour (Bob's white flour was used)
1/2 cup ground quinoa
1/4 cup ground flaxseed
1 heaping TBSP oat bran
1 tsp sea salt (far less polluted New Zealand sea salt was used)
2 cups plant-based milk (homemade almond milk was used)
3/4 cup chopped frozen or fresh organic blueberries
whites of two organic hen's eggs
up to 1/2 cup of spring water as needed if the resulting batter is too thick.
Mix the dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately. I beat the egg whites before adding the plant-based milk + then mixing all liquids together.
Depending on the pancake size, this recipe makes 15-20 pancakes. Any uneaten pancakes are well adapted to freezing for a future meal, with a small amount of nutrient loss from the freezing process.
We chop frozen blueberries before use since some frozen blueberries are quite big, so it becomes a safety issue otherwise, especially if your family includes young children. Why organic blueberries? Soft-skinned produce features a lot on the Dirty Dozen list of the US-based Environmental Working Group.
Eggs: We tried making these pancakes with whole eggs, but the resulting pancakes develop an unpleasant hardness ... plus our family must avoid the large amount of saturated fat found in egg yolks. Now that California mandates the collection of food waste in compostable bags for trash truck pick-up, our egg yolks go into the compostable bags. Why organic eggs? Organically raised chickens get better treatment overall and better animal feed. Example: In the USA it is legal to add arsenic to bird feed in order to control the birds' intestinal parasites ... I'd rather have arsenic-free eggs. Why not have a backyard poultry flock? Bloomberg News, NPR and other sources point out the much greater expense of raising chickens on-site over purchasing the eggs ... + having birds on-site also increases your family's risk of exposure to the avian flu pandemic ... not worth it?
This recipe is adapted from 2004's Laurel's Kitchen Recipes, from Ten Speed Press, a lower-cost edition of the Laurel's Kitchen cookbook, with some new recipes added. Laurel's Kitchen Recipes
4Cecrow
>3 MaureenRoy:, "If so, pandemic threats for our space travelers and pioneers on planets, some moons and some asteroids (Ceres?) will be a thing of the past." Is it that easy to eliminate the threat of pandemic? Could there be no other source of infection?
5MaureenRoy
>4 Cecrow: On the subject of pandemic threats, I have a list of books from the last 30 years that I could recommend, but I'll have to check our Science group's infectious disease thread to see what I + others have already posted there.
Stopping The Next Pandemic: how COVID-19 can help us save humanity, which was a revised edition of science writer Mackenzie's 2020 book, says for example that the rinderpest virus (eradicated finally in 2011) in cattle gave rise to the measles virus in humans in the 6th century BCE. "Flu comes from ducks, smallpox from rodents, malaria from birds, mumps - we think - from pigs."
If memory serves, plague comes from rodents as well, as does hantavirus. So it's a long list of viruses that come from animals, mostly farm-related animals.
I have two lists of books, one for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the other for influenza. Both of those are viruses, but present very different pandemic threats. Plague is actually a bacterium.
I have to serve breakfast now, more later.
Stopping The Next Pandemic: how COVID-19 can help us save humanity, which was a revised edition of science writer Mackenzie's 2020 book, says for example that the rinderpest virus (eradicated finally in 2011) in cattle gave rise to the measles virus in humans in the 6th century BCE. "Flu comes from ducks, smallpox from rodents, malaria from birds, mumps - we think - from pigs."
If memory serves, plague comes from rodents as well, as does hantavirus. So it's a long list of viruses that come from animals, mostly farm-related animals.
I have two lists of books, one for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the other for influenza. Both of those are viruses, but present very different pandemic threats. Plague is actually a bacterium.
I have to serve breakfast now, more later.
6Marissa_Doyle
>4 Cecrow: From what I've read, most pandemics have been the results of viruses jumping from one animal species, which has an evolved natural resistance of it, to another, which hasn't--or of recombining with other viruses to become more virulent or transmissable. That's why there's a new flu virus every year--it's based on what viruses have been observed in the wild causing disease. Take away human proximity to large numbers of other species, and the likelihood of pandemic disease in humans plummets.
7SandraArdnas
>6 Marissa_Doyle: I think the issue is only proximity to farm animals is affected at all and does that play a significant enough role. While I haven't closely followed scientific news about the latest pandemic, I don't think farm animals were involved, or meat consumption for that matter. But perhaps I'm wrong and it just hasn't come up in my limited reading about it.
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