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Re:The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture by bduerst on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:02PM (#12649312)
An animal is also terribly inefficient at converting water and feed into human-consumable nutrients, because it's optimized for survival and reproduction.

The vat based solution is more scalable in the long run, and not impossible (we do it with beer).

Re:The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture by teslabox on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:23PM (#12649403)
> An animal is also terribly inefficient at converting water and feed into human-consumable nutrients,

I have an old book somewhere that says the milk cow is the most efficient means of converting a rocky hillside covered with grass into human-usable protein.

Re:The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture by bduerst on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:49PM (#12653947)
>a rocky hillside covered with grass

Yeah, that's scalable.