Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
by wonderwonder on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:58PM
(#24201116)
Given enough resources to refine the process and a few years, I don't see how in the long run it cant become more efficient than farming.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
by boo_boo on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:15PM
(#24203023)
I don't buy it. You're comparing the energy inputs required to support large-scale tissue engineering operations with those needed for grazing cattle on pasture. It's not even close.
Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
by wongarsu on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:34PM
(#24205953)
If it was just pastures I would agree. But 30-40% of all corn produced in the US (the largest corn producer in the world) is used to feed lifestock [1]. That's a lot of perfectly good farmland that could directly produce food for human consumption.
Even if the lab process takes more energy, as long as producing the growth medium takes up less farmland that is a win towards the goal of having enough farmland to feed the world.