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Re:New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 ... by ben_w on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:18AM (#36448049)
> Plant farming eventually strips the nutrients from the soil

Crop rotation predates the wheel by about two millennia.

We're using the synthetic alternative because it's really amazing not because we don't have alternatives.

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Re:New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 ... by ethanbond on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:23AM (#36448117)
> because it's really amazing on the timeframes and liability frameworks that govern industrial decision-making

Small but critical detail.

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Re:New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 ... by ben_w on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:31AM (#36448259)
I'd say more "government" timescale; food may technically be from private farms selling on free markets, but they're heavily subsidised because of the fundamental importance to society of making sure we never, ever, under any circumstances, have a famine.

Not after what happened last time.

(What happened last time varying between country, of course).

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