Where does vegetarianism take us?
Consider the movement toward vegetarianism and its compatibility with the concept of decreasing one’s
‘carbon footprint’ and hence ‘the overall burden on the earth’.
At some point in understanding the human body and how it evolved, one has to recognize that it evolved
precisely to consume what we call “food” for gathering replacement materials and energy to sustain the
individual’s existence. The reason humans eat the food that they do is simply because it was ‘available’
in the environment. Now that electricity is also ‘available’ in the modern environment, we see more and
more humans becoming dependent on electricity as well. One person may have a battery powered
pacemaker to synchronize his heart and another person may depend on an electronic dialysis machine
to replace his kidney functions.
One can envision a component that takes CO2 out of the blood, takes the Carbon out of the CO2 and
places the O2 back in the blood. If one had such a unit that would take up less room than the lungs in a
normal human, one could create a modified human who wouldn’t need oxygen tanks for diving in the
ocean.
If you continue along this line of thought, you may happen upon the possibility of replacing the whole
core of the human body with a battery powered unit whose job would be to use stored electrical energy
to ‘purify blood’. Take out the urine and use electrical modules to manufacture the amino acids required
to live and place them back into the blood stream. Picture such a person being more sustainable on the
earth. Not only does such a person not eat meat, she doesn’t eat vegetation either.
Now continue the thought process to consider one gathering of people who have been modified to live
off of electricity alone. When a break in the meeting occurs, those who prefer using solar cells to
recharge their batteries go outside to “sun themselves.” Those individuals who prefer wind energy go
outside to “shoot the breeze.”
Would such people be called Electric Powered Humans (EPHs)?
How many years in the future before 100 such individuals exist?
Will they exist because enough of their organic organs were “not functioning properly” so that in the
opinions of the doctors it simply became the most feasible method of “saving their lives”?
If NASA were to recruit astronauts in the future, wouldn’t EPHs be their preferred candidates? After all,
EPHs don’t need food to eat and air to breathe.
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Consider the movement toward vegetarianism and its compatibility with the concept of decreasing one’s
‘carbon footprint’ and hence ‘the overall burden on the earth’.
At some point in understanding the human body and how it evolved, one has to recognize that it evolved
precisely to consume what we call “food” for gathering replacement materials and energy to sustain the
individual’s existence. The reason humans eat the food that they do is simply because it was ‘available’
in the environment. Now that electricity is also ‘available’ in the modern environment, we see more and
more humans becoming dependent on electricity as well. One person may have a battery powered
pacemaker to synchronize his heart and another person may depend on an electronic dialysis machine
to replace his kidney functions.
One can envision a component that takes CO2 out of the blood, takes the Carbon out of the CO2 and
places the O2 back in the blood. If one had such a unit that would take up less room than the lungs in a
normal human, one could create a modified human who wouldn’t need oxygen tanks for diving in the
ocean.
If you continue along this line of thought, you may happen upon the possibility of replacing the whole
core of the human body with a battery powered unit whose job would be to use stored electrical energy
to ‘purify blood’. Take out the urine and use electrical modules to manufacture the amino acids required
to live and place them back into the blood stream. Picture such a person being more sustainable on the
earth. Not only does such a person not eat meat, she doesn’t eat vegetation either.
Now continue the thought process to consider one gathering of people who have been modified to live
off of electricity alone. When a break in the meeting occurs, those who prefer using solar cells to
recharge their batteries go outside to “sun themselves.” Those individuals who prefer wind energy go
outside to “shoot the breeze.”
Would such people be called Electric Powered Humans (EPHs)?
How many years in the future before 100 such individuals exist?
Will they exist because enough of their organic organs were “not functioning properly” so that in the
opinions of the doctors it simply became the most feasible method of “saving their lives”?
If NASA were to recruit astronauts in the future, wouldn’t EPHs be their preferred candidates? After all,
EPHs don’t need food to eat and air to breathe.
don
Go to next section.
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