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Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by yostrovs on Monday December 28, 2020 @10:14AM (#25559787)
Grass fed livestock is indeed a large portion of the world's meat consumption. Places like Argentina, Brazil, New Zealand, England, Texas have a great deal of cows, sheep, and goats walking the land and not fed through a trough. Please account those in your calculations of what it would take to replace a cow with a pile of corn.
Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by Zigurd on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:50AM (#25560693)
Labelled grass fed beef that has not seen a feedlot is under 1% of the US market. It is also a dubious proposition that grass fed beef has any environmental advantages. At best it will find a niche as a luxury product as meat is replaced by plant-based foods.
Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by jessaustin on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:49PM (#25561924)
Much of it is also unpalatable.
Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by Mediterraneo10 on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:55PM (#25561347)
Even in Argentina, the amount of beef that is purely grass-fed has dwindled. The popular image of standard Argentinian beef coming from bulls roaming the pampas has been obsolete for at least a decade now. Argentinian beefs are now fed maize etc. on feedlots like in most other developed countries.