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Unfortunately, the myth about cooking steak that will be going away is that it can be done widely, at scale, into the future... beef production requires a lot o
by einpoklum 5y ago
Unfortunately, the myth about cooking steak that will be going away is that it can be done widely, at scale, into the future... beef production requires a lot of water and feed, so also a lot more land, than poultry, and still more than non-meat food. Livestock is part of the motivation for clear-cutting forested areas in South America. And of course there is the direct contribution to greenhouse gases...
Sorry for being the downer, but it's going to happen. And I like steak as much as the next guy :-(
- greatpostman 5y ago
- DennisP 5y agoSome scientists have managed to make carbohydrates from CO2, several times more efficiently than plants. If it could be scaled up, that could drastically shrink the amount of land required for cattle feed. https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/catalysis/New-method-makes-starch-CO2/99/web/2021/09 https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/catalysis/New-method-makes-sta...
- giraffe_lady 5y agoNone of those are reasons we've stopped doing anything else why would we stop eating beef. Not that I'm endorsing this stance, but dodging large-scale consequences for our indulgences are one of the privileges of being well paid professionals in the imperial core. I don't think people here will be particularly affected by this shift.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoThe US is largely self sufficient in terms of beef, feed, and water so I don't see these changing fast. Where is the shortage going to come from?
- einpoklum 5y agoI'm not in the US... in many (most?) countries, beef is mostly an import.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoFair