Re:New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 ...
by 100721 on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:18AM
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> The only way I can even remotely believe that is that 'agricultural' includes pastures which are useless to humans for any other purpose.
This is really interesting! I didn't know that pastures cannot support crops and/or buildings.
Why are pastures so limited in their usability?
Re:New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 ...
by ben_w on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:25AM
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Historically speaking, hillsides and mountains are awkward for both homes and combine harvesters. Such land is currently where pasturing is most common.
But such things are always conditional and depend on the tech. If Boston Dynamics robots start building the houses, or picking fruit and herbs on hillside orchards, such concerns probably stops mattering.
Re:New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 ...
by scotty79 on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:56PM
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I think that it's mostly combination of location, soil and terrain shape. Letting cows graze on a plot of land isn't worth much. If you let the cows graze somewhere that's because you have no way of getting anything more from that piece of land.
Lumping pastures with high class, farming suitable land is a bit dishonest.
The only way I can even remotely believe that is that 'agricultural' includes pastures which are useless to humans for any other purpose.
Land used for plants intended for human consumption would need to be expanded along with everything bad they require.
I also wonder how high would be the health cost of inappropriate diet because eating meat is brain-dead way of supplying yourself with some very crucial substances. And I don't believe that switching to plant diet would automatically make everybody eat smart.