Show vital food elements made in laboratory Labora toy tile the five food factors are salts fats carbo byll rates proteins and theoretically speaking the first three of 0 f these can already bo be made in a laboratory the fourth seems possible and chemists aro are optimistic about tile the fifth says floyd IV parsons in the saturday evening post the important question does docs not so much concern our ability to make these vital food elements but rather con can we manufacture the essential constituents of our dally daily diet as cheaply as plants can make them tile the french scientist berthelot has hag produced foodstuffs artificially chally in a laborn laboratory tory by subject subjecting in g gases to the tha action of ultraviolet ultra violet rays ile he tire pro coeds on the idea that it to la tile the light of alie sun rather than its heat that produces growth in plants in the growth of animals the foodstuffs con tire arc reduced to carbonic acost and water vapor but ln in the case at plants tile the fiction Is just tile reverse tile the plant takes ahn two gases basea exhaled by animals and combines combine the thein in again to form the sugars ant and 0 ther other hydrocarbons that animals feed udom berthelote Berthelot 4 work tends to discredit the notion that the synthetic functioning of plants Is W a vital action the secret of which la Is upon in that profound puzzle c concerning ning the creation of life itself |