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[tahujdt]

That actually happens though. Only the ooze is pink and made of grinded up animal remains (The parts that are normally not eaten).

thats what is kinda unsettling. your recycling meat... its so artificial.

Here's what I don't understand: Why not use it? What are we going to use it for if we're not going to eat it? Wouldn't it just go to waste? I'm hardly trying to defend fast food, but I'm legitimately curious what reason we would have not to use it.
Native Americans used every part of the animals they killed so it wouldn't go to waste, why shouldn't we?

Actually they killed bison en-masse and then ate hardly any of it.
They would kill herds at a time. And a lot of it didn't end up getting used because of the sheer quantity of dead animal.

Less so than the pioneers, but still...

[Graknorke]

That actually happens though. Only the ooze is pink and made of grinded up animal remains (The parts that are normally not eaten).

thats what is kinda unsettling. your recycling meat... its so artificial.

Here's what I don't understand: Why not use it? What are we going to use it for if we're not going to eat it? Wouldn't it just go to waste? I'm hardly trying to defend fast food, but I'm legitimately curious what reason we would have not to use it.
Native Americans used every part of the animals they killed so it wouldn't go to waste, why shouldn't we?

Actually they killed bison en-masse and then ate hardly any of it.
They would kill herds at a time. And a lot of it didn't end up getting used because of the sheer quantity of dead animal.

Less so than the pioneers, but still...

I would say that running herds off cliffs is a good example of mass-killing.
Though admittedly they did take more than the skins.

[kaenneth]

The only moral advantage the 'Native' Americans have is having killed anyone who got to the Americas before them.

The might have gotten here before us, but we called 'Shotgun!'

[tahujdt]

The only moral advantage the 'Native' Americans have is having killed anyone who got to the Americas before them.

The might have gotten here before us, but we called 'Shotgun!'

I have a feeling that this will spin into another huge argument, so let's stop this conversation now.

[Graknorke]

The might have gotten here before us, but we called 'Shotgun!'

I see what you did there.

[Catsup]

The might have gotten here before us, but we called 'Shotgun!'

hahahaha this made me lol

[Flying Dice]

The might have gotten here before us, but we called 'Shotgun!'

hahahaha this made me lol

Hahahaha it's funny because genocide.

[Putnam]

I don't see it as any different than the replicators on star trek.

Yeah, this line of thought kinda needs to die.

The thing about food printing is that the printer needs food to print.

[Catsup]

Hahahaha it's funny because genocide.

ouch...not sure what to say in this situation, i didnt think it was that bad

[Scelly9]

Hahahaha it's funny because genocide.

ouch...not sure what to say in this situation, i didnt think it was that bad

It really, really was.

[Putnam]

I think the death toll estimation is... well, I don't have exact numbers, but it's goddamn huge.

[kaijyuu]

I don't see it as any different than the replicators on star trek.

Yeah, this line of thought kinda needs to die.

The thing about food printing is that the printer needs food to print.

Presumably star trek replicators need a base material to work with, too.

I'm not saying "lol printed meat is more humane than regular" or anything silly like that. Just that any reservations that concern printed food's "artificialness" would be equally applicable to things like star trek's replicators.

[Sirus]

I don't see it as any different than the replicators on star trek.

Yeah, this line of thought kinda needs to die.

The thing about food printing is that the printer needs food to print.

Presumably star trek replicators need a base material to work with, too.

I'm not saying "lol printed meat is more humane than regular" or anything silly like that. Just that any reservations that concern printed food's "artificialness" would be equally applicable to things like star trek's replicators.

I was under the impression that replicators made matter directly from energy.

[Greiger]

I always thought the Star Trek replicators made the foods basically out of nothing but proteins, I actually have some vague memory of that being mentioned.

Ah a quick look at the star trek wiki says that it's bulk matter that uses transporter technology to re-sequence the matter into edible foodstuffs.  I'm probably thinking the things from Enterprise.

I imagine if the starship ever ran out of matter the replicators wouldn't work.

EDIT: "Quick!  Scotty the matter tanks for the replicators are empty!  We need an alternate food source, point the replicators to the warp core, we haven't broken that yet this episode."

[Jervill]

I always figured it was just organic materials that were already edible that were re-sequenced into more appetizing food unless the replicator malfunctioned or something.

I think that's why Voyager had Neelix as the cook, because they lacked the ability to resupply at a local Starbase that the other series had.