News Headline
Africa: Synthetic Biology - Artificial Life Threatens Nature and Society
Source
allAfrica.com
Publication Date
2014-10-30
Synthetic food has long been the subject of speculative fiction, from Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" where poor quality artificial food spawned dissent, to Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" where food was manufactured from coal and petroleum because fossil fuels had trashed global ecosystems.