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Re:The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture by adwn on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:04AM (#12650892)
> It's weird how much people try and peddle different solutions and proteins like "low methane cows" or crickets!" Instead of something much simpler and already tried and true, beans nuts, grains, etc...

Because very, very many people enjoy eating meat and meat-based products. Therefore, we're looking for alternative, better solutions.

Nothing weird about that.

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Re:The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture by marricks on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:32PM (#12654851)
I think discussions about alt-meat need to discussed in a way that acknowledges they are solutions to a solved problem.

Perhaps my original reply was a bit too down on them, because I do agree that research is good!

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Re:The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture by dragonwriter on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:40PM (#12654923)
> I think discussions about alt-meat need to discussed in a way that acknowledges they are solutions to a solved problem.

No, alt-meat is a solution to a problem of how to influence behavior to create particular results that is rather emphatically not solved.

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