Feng Xiong Artificial food, as a long-existing notion (e.g. Isaac Asimov mentioned artificial veal in his novel The Gods Themselves), has been the center of debate for long. I had always held a negative view against artificial food and its technology. However, one of my friends, who studies chemistry at college, thought highly of it. Last weekend we had a long conversation (nearly debate) about the topic whether we should advocate artificial food and the technology of making it. (Artificial food indicates food made from elementary substances (molecules, atoms, etc.) by chemical compounding and bioengineering processes. Such methods mark distinctions between artificial food and natural food whose major sources are animals and plants.)
