sarsaparilyptuscan't wait to buy it with Pullman dollars
Not sure what to take from this other than it being a really bad take. Insect protein is orders of magnitude more sustainable and eco-friendly than beef. We could replace all the land we destroyed that is used to have cows standing around in their own shit and for a fraction of the acreage produce the same number of protein and calories without massively contributing to climate change.
Yeah or just eat plants like someone who isn’t fucking nuts
I’m a big fan of plant based burgers, but the reality is that telling people “just eat plants” is not going to result in any change. They’ve long ago decided that the inconvenience of switching protein sources is greater than the climate impact that choice makes, so the only way we’re ever going to see change is to either ban cows or provide an alternative that the masses can/will adopt.
The fda has just approved lab grown chicken for two separate companies. It will still most likely take more land/energy to produce than plants, but should eventually be more efficient than traditional meat. It also has the benfit of not being a substitute, but instead actually being meat.
I hadn’t actually heard about lab-grown chicken, everything I’m read about has been beef. Vat chicken soup would be cool too.
Now, eggs might be more difficult
Apparently eggs have already been done, as has milk that can be turned into cheese
Although it’s a different process
Rather than grow them by duplicating existing cells, instead you GMO brewer’s yeast to produce the proteins you want, similar to how we make insulin now, and then add the few things you can’t get the yeast to provide (which with sufficient tinkering, is basically just the shell, and even that can be substituted with plastic containers)