Ok, 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 i

Ok, 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.