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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by Jensson on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:44PM (#28624351)
How can't it be a sustainable solution? Cows doesn't magically generate carbon out of nothing, it comes from the plants they eat. If you have a stable farmland area like Europe and keep raising and slaughtering cattle on it then the carbon footprint is net 0.
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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by desdiv on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:36AM (#28625249)
Methane has more than 10 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.

That means if the grazing plants capture 1 mol of carbon dioxide from the air, and then is consumed by cows who turn some of the carbon into methane, then the warming potential of the system has increased even though it's still carbon neutral.

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by Jensson on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:30AM (#28626997)
Methane breaks down though, it only gets worse if we scale up production. Basically eating meat forever is equivalent to a year or so of other carbon pollutants. I'd rather we regulate other emissions a year or so early than ban all meat forever.
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