At this time, what appeared in front of Su Zhe and the five people was bags of pig feed that was being packaged, and the whole process was automated and intelligent.

Several people heard Zuo Dajun say this, Fan Xiaoming reminded with a smile,

"Not only can we skip the part of growing crops, but we can also go to the part of raising livestock...... The synthesis of food is being studied, not only the synthesis of staple foods, but all foods are within the scope of synthesis. "Speaking of which, it's perfectly fine to skip the crop part now.

You know, the synthesis of sugars, proteins, fats, etc. is now quite mature. The role of crops is nothing more than the conversion of some inorganic substances such as water and carbon dioxide into these organic macromolecules.

These synthesized ones can be processed into feed for livestock. Bao Qizheng nodded and said: "Yes, since the synthesis of sugars, proteins, fats, etc. from inorganic matter has been completed, I know that sooner or later there will be such a day, just like the synthesis of rice, really, the efficiency is not a little bit fast, of course, its energy consumption is also high and scary, and it is basically impossible to synthesize food in this way before." ”

"Yes! Now that the proton fusion device will be successful, we will be able to achieve true energy freedom when we master thermonuclear fusion, let alone the way we synthesize food. Zuo Dajun said indifferently.

A few people continued to visit as they spoke. After visiting the production process of pig feed, I also saw the production process of other livestock feed.

The production process of pig feed is basically the same, the difference is that for different livestock, the proportion of feed is different.

Then, Su Zhe and the five came to the home of the space farm. The first thing they visited was the chicken farm.

Walking in the chicken farm, Su Zhe's voices were covered by the cries of these chickens, and several people had to use the communication channel.

Zuo Dajun walked in the front, and sighed as he walked: "I'm obedient, this is no different from those large-scale chicken farms in the past in China, if I didn't know that we are now in the space farms simulated in the virtual universe, I would have thought that I was in those large-scale farms." Fan Xiaoming smiled,

"The difference is big, the breeding here can be automated and intelligent, and the scale of breeding is incomparable in the past, in the breeding area of this chicken, 10 billion broilers can be slaughtered a year, and more than 100 billion eggs are produced."

"It's a scary yield." Zuo Dajun stopped and stared at a hen that kept crying,

"The egg is laid, this hen is the egg, let's see where this egg ends up." Fan Xiaoming grabbed Zuo Dajun, smiled and waved his hand, and a picture appeared in front of several people.

In the picture, the egg is collected and concentrated, then sterilized, tested, packed, and finally transported on a flying saucer.

"That's it, I thought there was something special, and the treatment of the broiler was similar." Zuo Dajun had no interest.

Fan Xiaoming waved his hand, and what appeared in the picture was the process of processing broilers. Compared with eggs, there are different options for the treatment of broilers, and the most common one is to sort different parts after slaughter and finally transport them out.

After reading this, Zuo Dajun smiled and said: "In addition to automation and intelligence, no human involvement, there is no difference from the handling method of large-scale chicken farms in the past." "Judging by the chickens alone.

From the beginning of the classification of material elements, that is, the classification of those household garbage, ores and the like.

This is followed by the synthesis of compounds needed for the growth of crops and other plants, and then the growth of related crops to the ratio of chicken feed.

The cultivation of chickens and finally the production of chicken and eggs. The whole process is done without human involvement.

"The difference from the past is still not small, at least the past is not as concentrated as it is now." Fan Xiaoming said and waved his hand, and the picture in front of several people disappeared.

"Let's go, let's go see the other livestock breeding, and then we're going to visit the space ranch." A group of five people visited the centralized breeding of ducks, geese and other birds, and the whole process was similar to the process of raising chickens.

After reading this, the group came to the area where the pigs were raised. In an area, there are thousands of big pigs and small pigs.

Looking at these chirping pigs, Bao Qizheng sighed: "If there are conditions, it is better to raise them freely, whether it is chickens, ducks or these pigs, this kind of centralized breeding method is somewhat inhumane, and it is strange to stay in such a small area all your life." Zuo Dajun sneered, and when he saw a few people looking at him, he hurriedly became serious,

"I just said that from the perspective of these livestock, these animals have been in such an environment from the beginning, for them, their perception is like this, they will not feel anything abnormal, but those who are free-range and then kept in captivity, this is really inhumane." For intensive farming or free-range farming, they all feel the same, and in the end it will become a dish.

The key is not to toss these animals halfway.

"Dajun, you have a lot of big truths." Fan Xiaoming smiled,

"It's good to look at it with a normal heart, let them eat and drink well when raising livestock, don't deliberately toss them, and count these livestock as coming around in this world." Several people smiled and nodded.

After visiting the pig breeding area, we will continue to visit the area where cattle and sheep are raised. Speaking of which, the speed of the group was unusually fast.

Since this is in the virtual universe, several people don't follow the usual path at all, and use the flying ones for a short distance, and the ones that are a little farther away teleport directly.

In the end, Su Zhe and the five of them floated in space not far from the space farm, looking at the flying saucers that kept entering and leaving the space farm.

There is also a small picture in front of several people, which shows the parameters related to the space farm.

For example, the diameter of the annular device of the space farm is 500 kilometers, the circumference of the outermost ring is 1,570 kilometers, and the width of the outermost ring is 25 kilometers.

In other words, the usable area of its outermost ring alone reaches nearly 40,000 square kilometers. This is really the outermost ring.

Xu Zhengping looked at these and sighed: "In just one year, we will be able to build such a big thing in space, and what is even more ruthless is that as long as there is such a space farm, it can continue to provide the consumption of meat for five billion people, which is still 60% of the production capacity of space farms." "This would have been unthinkable in the past.

But now such a space farm is already under construction. To put it bluntly, with such a space farm, with enough resources and energy, there will be a steady stream of meat.

Fan Xiaoming smiled and said: "We are not going to eat the meat, eggs and milk provided by the space farm now, the space farm we are building is also a research nature, although there is no problem in technology, and there is no problem with the simulation in the virtual universe, but in reality, we still have to run in, to be honest, we don't need such a space farm at the moment, but we still need it in the future." "Right now, the entire planet has only eight billion people.

Besides, the food problem of the more than 6 billion people does not need to be worried about now, and the food of the more than one billion people in the country is in charge.

Today's technology can be so tossed in space, and that's even more so on Earth. The earth's environment is originally suitable for the survival of plants and animals, and the energy to maintain the living environment is left.

Plus the deindustrialization of the planet. To put it bluntly, the current technology, the earth's environment, and the energy provided by the Light Pillar Project, the output of food and meat is more than enough for a trillion people.

The reason for the establishment of space farms is to prepare for the future of mankind. You must know that the development of the solar system and the development of the universe outside the solar system will inevitably increase the population, and the increase in population is not half a point.

To increase the population, it is necessary to have the ability to feed these people. Whether it is a space farm, a space ranch, a space fishery, or a space farm, they are all for the preparation of human beings in the future.

Bao Qizheng smiled and said: "We just want to eat it and we can't eat it now, it is estimated that it will take a long time to study and let us eat these foods after it is determined that there is no harm to the human body, of course, there will be many people who do not accept these now." Zuo Dajun said indifferently: "Actually, there is no need at all, as long as you are sure that you can't die when you eat it, the current medical technology is not in the past, what tumors, what cancers, 99.99% can be cured, not to mention other diseases, so what are we afraid of, not only the staple food and meat produced by the space farm, but I dare to eat the synthetic, anyway, as long as I don't die at that time, it can be cured, and what is terrible." "It's not a year ago that medical technology is today.

In the past year, there has been a full-scale outbreak of science and technology, even with medical technology, and those diseases in the past have been solved one by one.

There is a big difference between the present and the past. Fan Xiaoming's eyes lit up,

"It's really like this, the current level of medical care is not in the past, as long as you can't die at that time, you can't die, and if you can't accept it, it's psychological, it seems that these staple foods and meat can be promoted earlier."

"Yes! Yes. Xu Zhengping nodded and said,

"Look now. The speed of development can be even faster, especially the plan to increase the population, which takes more than 10 years from a child to an adult, and the plan to increase the population really cannot be delayed any longer. Hearing Xu Zhengping say this, several other people looked over one after another.

Several of them heard something else from what Xu Zhengping said. Fan Xiaoming smiled and asked, "Principal, do you know that we don't know, for example, the plan to increase the population you said, isn't it being discussed now?" It seems that a concrete plan to increase the population has been released, but it has not yet been announced. "The issue of increasing the population was brought up for discussion a month ago.

The mainstream view is that for the future of mankind, population growth is necessary, but the way to increase it is really being discussed.

The reason why it is still being discussed is because there is now one more option to increase the population, and that is to cultivate it through an artificial uterus.

Through artificial uterine technology, a fertilized egg can develop into a human individual. Then there is the ethical issue of adopting this approach.

Xu Zhengping thought for a while and said: "It's nothing to tell you now, that's the case, the preliminary plan to increase the population has come out, and now we are waiting for the opportunity to announce, and pay equal attention to natural breeding and artificial breeding." "It goes without saying that human development demands population.

At present, it is far from enough to develop the solar system, let alone develop the universe outside the solar system.

Without population growth, the pace of human development will be severely limited, which is also unacceptable.

After careful consideration, it was decided to significantly increase the number of people to support the continuous and rapid development of mankind.

Fan Xiaoming smiled and said: "As far as we are concerned, is the speed of natural breeding too slow, and now life is better...... If you really want to increase the population significantly, it is estimated that in the end it will rely on artificial breeding. Xu Zhengping nodded and said: "As far as our development speed is concerned, we can only rely on artificial breeding, that is, relying on artificial uterine technology, but this is also possible, from the identification of cultivating children, to the education after that, to the work and life of these children in adulthood, we have to take into account them one by one." ”

"These must be arranged, otherwise there will be no mess up when the time comes." Zuo Dajun nodded and said,

"In fact, with the development of science and technology, many problems that were not in the past are now available, and any way of life and family form will change."

"Yes! Just let it go with the flow this time. Xu Zhengping continued,

"Needless to say, the biological parents of artificially bred children must exist in reality, that is to say, the genetic information of artificially bred children must be clear, and the biological parents who can be found in reality, and furthermore, the genetic genes of children cannot be edited, which is strictly prohibited, and there is no difference between the social nature of artificially bred children and naturally bred children." These regulations mean that there is no genetic difference between artificially bred children and naturally bred children.

If there is a difference, it is from the fertilized egg to the birth of the baby, where it stays, and there is no difference in the rest.

Editing a child's genetics is strictly forbidden and is a felony if it is found.

Such an opening can't be opened.,Once it's opened.,It's a group of demons dancing wildly.,It's estimated that any strange monsters will appear in the future.。

In the long run, this day will come sooner or later, but not now.

"That's the right thing to do." Fan Xiaoming nodded and said,

"In fact, artificial uterine technology and surrogacy in the past are the same, but surrogacy is illegal, artificial uterine technology is different, at least in terms of ethics is not so serious, as for genetic editing, strict prohibition is the correct operation, and the related technology is strictly supervised, not to mention completely preventing the occurrence of such a situation, at least it can delay the time of occurrence." Many of the ethical issues of the present may not be a problem in the future.

For example, the current artificial uterus technology is basically not acceptable to the vast majority of people, but after a few years, it will become commonplace.