On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > An example is producing insulin using genetically engineered bacteria > instead of collecting it from the pancreas of farm animals.
And counterexamples are everything that isn't an isolated protein molecule, in other words practically everything else we've ever produced. Seriously, everyone knows about the insulin example just because it's that unusual in being amenable to production by that method. > Genetic > engineering is cheap enough that a lot of our food is produced this > way too. Almost all of it isn't, despite the huge costs in money, thermodynamic efficiency, spreading of disease, cognitive dissonance etc. involved in torturing animals for food. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
