From: Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 21:12:45 MST
"Mitchell Porter" <mitchtemporarily@hotmail.com> writes:
> Metaqualia:
>
>>There is an answer to the meat question.
>>Develop nanotechnology, then the animals can live and we can eat meat.
>>Nobody 100 years ago could have thought of this, still the solution was
>>always there, readily accessible with more knowledge/intelligence.
>
> The first inorganic synthesis of an organic molecule (urea,
> by Friedrich Wöhler) was in 1828. So actually, they could
> have thought of it, and probably someone did.
Again, eating meat isn't the issue -- it is just a simple example of a
quandary.
-- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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