In Dinner on Mars, food scientists Lenore Newman and Evan Fraser investigate the technologies—and mindset—needed to set the Martian table.
, Newman underscores: they live outside in the winter, eat snow and use their hoofs or muzzles to break through ice to find water.
“I’m not willing to go as far as saying the end of animal agriculture is nigh because of these technologies,” he says. “What I am going to say, though, is that many of the ways we currently do animal agriculture, especially in confined feeding operations, have a lot of very serious animal welfare problems to it. It has a huge environmental burden.”
Products such as chicken nuggets, frozen beef burritos, ice cream and industrial cheese will become less dependent on animals and more dependent on microbes for their ingredients. In BaseTown, varieties of algae are the foundation of the food system. Mars dwellers eat a protein- and vegetable-heavy diet — ”in pleasant but standard cafeteria surroundings” — with carbohydrates playing a lesser role.Article content
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