A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by jjoonathan on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:38PM (#15772297)

> better than the egg-inspired food product in a McGriddle.

People always use this as an insult, but how cool would it be if fast/processed food providers had actually found a way to make eggs/chicken/beef/etc artificially? It's been an area of active research with decades of failed attempts to show for it. Achieving fast-food level quality would be a huge step forward.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by razakel on Friday November 24, 2017 @04:09PM (#15773029)

The secret to fast-food "quality" is the same as any other restaurant: fat, sugar and salt.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by whatshisface on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:40PM (#15772313)

Egg synthysizers exist and they're shaped exactly like chickens.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by adrianN on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:05PM (#15772448)

Now do it without a nervous system that can experience suffering

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by jjoonathan on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:29PM (#15772569)

and without losing 90% (or was it 99%?) of the input energy to heat.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by nkurz on Friday November 24, 2017 @04:59PM (#15773252)

I think egg production by chickens is actually more efficient than that. If I'm reading Figure 1 in the following link correctly, it looks like modern farms are about 17% efficient for calories of food fed to the chickens to calories of eggs produced: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/10...

For comparison (from the same figure) pork is 9%, chickens raised for meat are 13%, cow production of milk is 17%, and cows raised for beef are 3% efficient.

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