Re:Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling c...
by UglyToad on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:00PM
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The problem, as a vegetarian of something like 4 years, is that meat is really bloody tasty. Simply put, it's extremely nice to eat.
So rather than a future where we all eat flies or tofu or lentils or seitan or something if we can make a dent in the impact of animal agriculture while catering for the increase in meat eating in Asia then it's a good thing.
Re:Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling c...
by rattray on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:59PM
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I think many people would rather burn the planet down than eat fly larvae.
Re:Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling c...
by biztos on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:08AM
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You wouldn’t advertise it as fly larvae.
People in the West already enthusiastically eat many things that would make them seriously unhappy if they had to think about the origins.
Re:Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling c...
by cleancoder0 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:54PM
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That is a valid claim. The artificial bioreactors in question are rarely as efficient as the body of an animal. So these "reduction" claims come from thinking about how much animal meat production is reduced by meeting the demand with fake meat, not taking the energy demands of fake meat production into account at all.
I applaud the desire to help humanity eat healthier and saner amounts of meat, but...
I remain unconvinced that creating relatively resource-intensive fake meats is better than using highly efficient non-animal meat[0]. Most people won't eat either one unless they have no choice, but if it comes to that one thing is much better for the planet than the other. And if it doesn't come to that, we're gonna burn the planet to ashes for our McRibs.
Isn't the real solution to eat less meat, as opposed to eating more fake meat?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetia_illucens#As_human_foo...