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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by philwelch on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:20PM (#28624901)
So that's about twice the population for about 1/10th the lifespan, so about a 20x increase in scale. Which seems...not entirely unreasonable compared to near-complete wilderness supporting a hunter-gatherer population?
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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by mekkkkkk on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:18AM (#28627303)
You're saying ~1 billion freely roaming bison in the US seems like a manageable and reasonable solution?
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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by philwelch on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:13AM (#28630337)
No; I’m saying it seems reasonable to get 20x the bovine field from the same land through active ranching and agriculture than it would naturally support.
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