{"id":89022,"date":"2013-04-18T06:29:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89022"},"modified":"2013-04-18T06:29:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:29:37","slug":"turning-grass-and-trees-into-food-neo-malthusians-mocked-by-human-ingenuity-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89022","title":{"rendered":"Turning Grass and Trees Into Food: Neo-Malthusians Mocked by Human Ingenuity Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/turning-grass-and-trees-into-food-neo-ma\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During famines, desperate people often try to survive by eating things like grass and tree bark. That doesn&#8217;t do much to alleviate their hunger since trees and grass are chiefly composed of cellulose which people&#8217;s guts cannot digest. Starch, found in wheat, corn, rice, and potatoes, makes up a big portion of the modern human diet. Now researchers at Virginia Tech have announced in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they can turn cellulose into edible starch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think of it as biodiesel for people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. During famines, desperate people often try to survive by eating things like grass and tree bark. That doesn&#8217;t do much to alleviate their hunger since trees and grass are chiefly composed of cellulose which people&#8217;s guts cannot digest. Starch, found in wheat, corn, rice, and potatoes, makes up a big portion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89024,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89022\/revisions\/89024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}