At base, all of life on Earth is “a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules.” So writes Michael Pollan in his excellent book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” A food chain, therefore, is “a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the plant’s unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.”
That’s the problem in a nutshell. If people and other animals could be cross-bred with, say, cabbages, then we could synthesize our own sunlight, stop the killing and just sit around, basking in food.
Scientists, get to work on this, would you?
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