date:Jun 09, 2013
The future of food will be famine and war.
No, wait, thats not quite right: The future of food will be like a famine; it will taste like wartime. Or: In the future, well eat the foods of famine and wargrass, wood, bark, sawdust.
Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new method of unlocking digestible starches from cellulose, a carbohydrate found in all plants that human stomachs cant cope with. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United