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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by albertgoeswoof on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:00PM (#28517444)
You think it’s more realistic (and better for the environment) to farm seaweed at global beef production scale? You’d have to dredge up so much seaweed and ship it all the way to the cows, it would be insanely bad for marine environments and so expensive to do at that scale. Meanwhile growing feed from the ground can be done right beside the cows at rock bottom prices.

There are millions (billions?) of people that don’t eat cows, it is not unrealistic for people to stop eating them, culture changes very quickly

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by tw04 on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:18PM (#28517642)
“I don’t know why we need birth control, people can just stop having sex until they’re ready to reproduce”

When you start your response from a place that is unreasonable, nobody is going to give you the time of day. Telling people to just stop eating beef is both unreasonable and just flat out not going to happen in at least several generations with many steps in between - if it ever happens.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by slothtrop on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:13PM (#28517571)
I don't think you understand the scale and flexibility of seaweed farming. But the feed itself is already poised to be adopted by large producers - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-09/world-s-t....

> it is not unrealistic for people to stop eating them

It's unrealistic to force them unless necessary.

Beef industry in some places is subsidized, demand can easily be curbed by removing subsidies or taxing. That isn't even on the table yet.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by ars on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:07PM (#28517522)
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28517488

You can skip the seaweed and just give the active ingredient.

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