Brainstorming...eating grass

**Cronos Impera** · 10-06-2006, 12:05

As living just gets more and more expensive I would like to ask you: Can human beings eat grass. A solution might provide poor people with a cheap product.

**Somebody Else** · 10-06-2006, 12:13

What have you been smoking?

Grass is inedible because we lack the appropiate facilities to digest cellulose (this is why cows, for instance, need a coupla stomachs, and need to chew cud). Good roughage though, it just goes straight through.

Interestingly, the appendix - a completely useless bit of kit we have, used to serve that purpose (I think monkeys still have it functioning). But it's not terribly efficient.

We could, I suppose, genetically engineer poor people to be able to eat grass within a few generations.

**Fragony** · 10-06-2006, 12:20

Originally Posted by Cronos Impera

A solution might provide poor people with a cheap product.

And me with a lot of fun. I am all for it, but what about teh cows?

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 10-06-2006, 13:14

I suppose maybe if you shredded it and mixed it with some of the bacteria that cows have living inside them. But for all practical purposes, no, for the reason already mentioned.

Cows only have one stomach BTW, it's just multi-chambered.

**LeftEyeNine** · 10-06-2006, 14:45

Instead of gaining to power to govern your imperialistic, warfare-selling, resource-exploiting, chaos breeder governments, it's a wiiiiiiiiiise idea to suggest the poor people eat grass.

Good Lord, please make a touch.

**Kanamori** · 10-06-2006, 15:22

The best way to eat grass is to cook it into some butter, and then into brownies, cookies, or whatever. Then, once the munchies start to hit you, I don't even think that they do if you cook it -- Zorba, where are you? -- all you have to do is keep eating the grass in the cookies. Simple. Riotous. Fun.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 10-06-2006, 15:52

I can solve the problem of world hunger through my company i set up, the Soylent company. We make food from bio-cultures, and nothing else, i assure you.

Tomorrow i'll be pleased to announce the release of new and nutritious Soylent Green!

**Reverend Joe** · 10-06-2006, 16:02

You don't eat grass; you smoke it.

**edyzmedieval** · 10-07-2006, 21:37

Originally Posted by Zorba

You don't eat grass; you smoke it.

My type of answer.

What have you been smoking?

Eating grass.

**Csargo** · 10-07-2006, 21:41

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

My type of answer.

Eating grass.

Interesting Eating grass

Your supposed to smoke it like Zorba said

**edyzmedieval** · 10-07-2006, 21:44

Originally Posted by Csar

Interesting Eating grass

Your supposed to smoke it like Zorba said

A new type of w33d, already trademarked, registered and counter-registered with Bush & Rice Companies.

Eating Grass - in heavy, lights or normal.

**Ironside** · 10-08-2006, 00:56

Originally Posted by currywurry

I can solve the problem of world hunger through my company i set up, the Soylent company. We make food from bio-cultures, and nothing else, i assure you.

Tomorrow i'll be pleased to announce the release of new and nutritious Soylent Green!

I must complain about the quality on your product.

I've found hair in it and even a finger-nail in there. That gold-tooth was a nice financial contribution though.