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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by tptacek on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:21AM (#18856062)
It's easy to win the argument that plant-based foods are more efficient to mass-produce than CAFO meat, but you might need to be careful generalizing; pigs and chickens fed forage and scrap are supposedly pretty efficient as well.

(I have no idea if there's an efficient way to scale beef).

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by hundt on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:39PM (#18858121)
> I have no idea if there's an efficient way to scale beef

If you're interested, https://twitter.com/drsplace is a good follow. She writes and cites a lot on this topic (because she is employed by the beef industry).

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by firethief on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:18PM (#18858611)
Efficiency and scalability are not the same thing. Does forage not have high land requirement? If there were a massive demand for scrap, would it be met by something other than scrap farming?
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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by tptacek on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:31PM (#18858758)
No, the point of forage is that it does not spend arable land generating crops for livestock. That's the meaning of the term.
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