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Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by Dirlewanger on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:51AM (#25559573)
It may be easier to grow and great for humans, but reducing it to just that is like the people who want to subsist only on Soylent; it's missing the bigger picture about food.

Some people like eating things beyond just basic nutritional subsistence. It's why meat is so popular. We've also been eating it since time immemorial. The demand for meat isn't going away no matter how many cricket/insect ads you shove in people's faces. If anything, it just breeds resentment for sustainable food practices, because the rich and powerful will always still have access to meat products.

Making meat into a luxury product like the days of yore will not work. The monkey's out of the bottle on that one. We need to work with this fact, not around it.

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Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by cageface on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:36PM (#25566106)
Climate change is going to necessitate a lot of uncomfortable changes, including not eating whatever you want whenever you want. Selfishness at that level doesn't work with 8 billion people.

That said I think lab grown meats look pretty promising.

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