Atlas City Project

To harness the power of nature, will people in Atlas be encouraged to consume raw food, for its superior nutritional properties?

I imagine it will be readily available as anything else, but not swayed either way. People are welcome to do as they please with their food, but knowledge of the pros and cons for each will be readily available as well. Eateries will completely depend on whomever is cooking at that place that day. I picture a set number of mom and pop sized food shops and whoever wants to cook will have to shuffle with everyone else that wishes to. When you walk by it will say "Today's chef is..." so people will know what to expect. This is, however, just my vision of it.

Finally found the sushi conveyor store I was looking for.

Dichan Kaiten Sushi in California

that is a really interesting idea.

that could definitely be used in a restaurant setting for regular food as well, not just sushi

That, mixed with buffet style, could constitute a good portion of feeding the city. The rest can cook at home, but we will also have a number of fine cuisine type restaurants as well. This leaves a good variety of eating choices with very little work.

The more I study raw food the more is scares me. The World Health Organization estimates that there are currently tens of millions, possibly hundreds of million, of people infected with easily avoidable parasites. Some are quite scary and dangerous. Many of these parasites are usually only able to infect a human when the human eats raw meats (usually seafood). Granted, many of these cases are in Asia and Africa, along with a few other third world areas, but the percentages of the aquatic life infected with parasites is cause for concern.

In Atlas, most of our food will be gown and bred in the city. This doesn't, however, make it impossible for them to eventually become infected as well. I'm not saying don't ever eat raw meat, but be careful and go to the doctors at the first sign of complications. I think I'll stick to cooked meat for now.

The only ones that I will eat raw food are fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, etc. Cooking destroys almost all of the nutrients in fruits and vegetables except minerals. I have heard that microwaving food also destroys the nutrients too. What I need is to do a science experiment on 4 plants. The first plant will be watered by purified water, the second will be microwaved purified water, the third will be tap water, and the fourth will be microwaved tap water. All of the waters will be at room temperature and the results would be if the plant grows or dies. I could do this experiment myself, but due to the amount of the college workload I don't think I will have the time to do this kind of experiment to see if microwaving food is bad.

That would be a great experiment. I've heard both sides, but have seen little proof of either. If nothing else, it would be fun to get a little scientific debate going. I have no idea what type of instruments would be needed to do this though.

just 4 plants, a microwave, and a thermometer

I wonder if those results would vary...
perhaps if you had 3 plants in each group and found the average mass for each group you would get a more precise answer.

No, I mean to see the nutritional value after. To see which vitamins or proteins may have been destroyed by the process that our body can't repair. Biology is a very fun, yet confusing, study. Unfortunately, most of what we hear is just gossip and not backed by study.

For instance, if a microwave destroyed an average of 40% of the proteins in a food idem (just throwing a number out there) it would be nice to know. Once certain amino acid connections are broken they cannot be regained very easily, if at all. Without the amino acid chains there is no protein.

In my opinion, the only truly sustainable way to eat is in forms of vegan-ism( ie vegans, and raw vegans) There is an enormous cost to farming animals. For instance why grow the crop to feed to the animal, then spend resources butchering the meat and preventing it from becoming rancid? Why not just grow the crop for direct human consumption?

The U.S Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health Services affirm that all the body's nutritional needs, including protein, can be met through a plant-based diet. Their statement takes all stages of life into account (infancy, pregnancy, etc).

We must also take into account the quality of our plant-based food. I have seen other threads about hydroponics, etc. But there are many more nutrients the plant needs that will be passed on to humans after consumption. These nutrients are vital to a healthy and productive population. We need to put more emphasis on organic food.

With hydroponics the plans will thrive, but they are missing key nutrients that they would have acquired from organic soil (ie compost).

I have researched the pro's and con's of omnivorous and herbivorous for a few years now, so if you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Thanks. And again, this is just my opinion.

> There is an enormous cost to farming animals.

Generally agreed there.

> With hydroponics the plans will thrive, but they are missing key nutrients that they
> would have acquired from organic soil (ie compost).

I do worry that hydroponics isn't fully understood as to the entire ingrediant range needed for healthy food production, are there any studies to show either way this issue I wonder ?


> And again, this is just my opinion.

I don't think we worry here so much with people saying things, after all, someones got to be right and some else wrong, I think most of us can handle it!

Me, if someone has a better answer than I, I go with their answer, I find progress much faster that way!