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> making from plant proteins directly will always be cheaper, faster, require less resources and be healthier This is not clear at all. If you look into what
by mdorazio 5y ago
> making from plant proteins directly will always be cheaper, faster, require less resources and be healthier
This is not clear at all. If you look into what goes into making something like an Impossible Burger, it is basically none of those things.
- shafyy 5y agoWhich part is not clear?
- djrogers 5y agoFor one thing, plant based meats require a ton of resources, and for another there’s no clear evidence that it’s any healthier than vat grown meat.
- shafyy 5y agoOk, let's leave out the health part because nutritional health is a tricky topic. We could argue days and nights about this. But what we can tell for certain is that it does not require a ton of resources. The cultured cells in the bioreactor also need energy and nutrtients from somewhere, they don't just create it out of thin air. The energy and nutrtients ultimately comes from plants. Basic physics dictates that there will be a conversion loss. So it is always better to directly eat the plants than to feed plants to something else and eat that.