help us w/sprouts/grass for NASA proposal

[Guest guest]

Help us keep space VEGAN. A lot of scary proposal are coming down the pike

as the plan for a Mars mission by 2010 takes shape, and hundreds of

millions of dollars worth of space crop grants are paid out.

 

Here goes:

 

We of the San Francisco Wheatgrass Growers Farm and Depot

(http://sfwheatgrass.org/) have received encouragement from NASA

researchers to write a grant proposal to the agency. Spirulina is already

one of the space crops for the I.S.S. (International Space Station) and

we believe that research on sprouts (for the purpose of growing and

juicing them in space) might also prove their merits for the I.S.S., and

Mission to Mars. We're open to studying more than grass sprouts (e.g.

wheatgrass, barley, and one that I am excited to try from reading

BIOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM: 900 to 1900 AD, crabgrass), but realize that

efficiency is the major consideration for space explorers.

 

Since NASA isn't as beholden to agribusiness concerns as the health

agencies (NIH, FDA etc.) we're thinking that it could boost research and

publicity for juicing and, possibly, raw foods in general in the U.S.

Please let me know if you are interested in this project, or have any

suggestions for crops to study (including fruits if they could be grown

very quickly/efficiently, wild species), new juicer designs, people to

contact, etc. At this stage, we're looking for persons with the proper

credentials to be principle investigators for the grant. We're also

particularly interested in people who use green juices to " knock down "

their appetites as part of a calorie-restricted diet, which could be

crucial to a space mission (not to mention an individual's health!).

 

While human-> space exploration may not be the wisest use of resources,

we may as well take advantage of the research grant money to research and

spread a raw food diet. Juicing itself may prove to

be a mere shortcut to an optimum diet, but let's try to figure that out

in a structured way. We believe that a NASA grant could provide the means

to answer these questions, and many more. Won't you help us?

 

p.s. we might add flax seed, and blueberries to the proposal

 

-JP