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What is the most stable food production method? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I don't know much about hydroponics but I know that bacteria are a concern. What food source is the most reliable, the least likely to produce less food than expected?

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Diversity of food sources.

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the right response, along with proper crop rotation. No magic single correct answer here will work.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not to be contrary, but... Soylent Green would fit the bill.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know you’re not really being serious, but it doesn’t really. I considered the logistics of this for an RP I was running and it doesn’t add up. You need way way way way more food to grow a human being than the human being provides in food when they’re dead. At most, being very very generous, you could meet 1% of a society’s food needs with cannibalism. And that’s a really high estimate. It’s really more of a special treat than a daily diet!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Conservation of energy, basically. A self-eating population is a perpetual motion machine.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

/unexpected futurama

[–] cnnrduncan 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that's actually just a reference to the film Soylent Green...

[–] gullible@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

What’s funny about Soylent green is that there are a few genuinely standout scenes and insightful existential conversations, but the only line ever referenced is “Soylent green is people.” The ads were apparently more culturally relevant than the movie.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That’s why it is unexpected.

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're making our food out of people, next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle! for food!

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

But what happens when covid kills 75% of your long pig stock? Thousands will starve, millions will die!