ABSTRACT
This chapter details an interview with Paul Gong. In this interview, Paul Gong explores the uncomfortable prospect of tackling food waste through a form of human modification that enables a further expansion, rather than contraction, of consumer markets. Human Hyenas would be able to change themselves to adapt to the food they eat, consuming rotten food like their scavenging counterparts. It is also possible that the way we consume food would change as well. For example, if we no longer have to care about food hygiene, we may have to care less about the utensils we use for eating or how we store or protect food from decay and infection. Spoiled food has different textures, tastes, and flavours to our normal fare, and this would drive changes to our preferred culinary palette and the patterns of how and when we consume food.
