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Grass is made from recycled carbon dioxide and cows are made from grass. And we already know beef is delicious.
by User23 4y ago
Grass is made from recycled carbon dioxide and cows are made from grass. And we already know beef is delicious.
- owl57 4y agoThat's an interesting angle. I haven't pictured myself made from chicken before.
- monkeybutton 4y agoWater, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff. Seriously though, by mass, aren't plants by mostly carbon that was separated from CO2?
- ByteJockey 4y ago> Water, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff. God, the Captain Planet re-boot got weird...
- dash2 4y ago“… those creatures we behold, are but the hearbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in our selves. Nay further, we are what we all abhorre, Antropophagi and Cannibals, devourers not onely of men, but of our selves; and that not in an allegory, but a positive truth; for all this masse of flesh which wee behold, came in at our mouths: this frame wee looke upon, hath beene upon our trenchers; In briefe, we have devoured our selves.” Thomas Browne - Religio Medici
- detritus 4y agoI've often joked that I'm at least 1/4 potato, given how many of them I eat.
- dqv 4y agoWhat are recycled jokes made of? The point of the exercise is to find alternatives that aren't so hard on the environment. >“By contrast, our process takes a few days to make a steak, has very low water utilization, is carbon negative, uses zero arable land, and minimal land overall.” The point is not recycling carbon for funsies, but to actually have a positive impact on the environment. Whether the process described actually achieves this is to be determined, but it is evident that animal agriculture today is a big contributor to our environmental issues.
- ibz 4y ago> The point of the exercise is to find alternatives that aren't so hard on the environment. Cows and grass are "the environment". Millions of years of evolution refined cows to be the best mechanism for converting grass into meat. Some hippy scientists think they can do better? I doubt.
- myshpa 4y agoThis is not a proper environment (= this is not right). https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2AB4XKW/kersey-colorado-a-cattle-feedlot-operated-by-five-rivers-cattle-this-feedlot-has-a-capacity-of-98000-cattle-the-company-feeds-nearly-a-million-c-2AB4XKW.jpg https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2AB4XKW/kersey-colorado-a-cattle-f... https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/feedlot-picture-id173601869 https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/feedlot-picture-id17360... https://www.africahunting.com/attachments/cattle-feed-lot-jpg.49213/ https://www.africahunting.com/attachments/cattle-feed-lot-jp...
- ibz 4y agoStraw man. Cows should be grazing, not being locked up and fed corn. Grazing cows actually make the environment better. So rather than blaming cows, blame the way they have been grown over the past 50 years or so.
- cute_boi 4y agoYes, the problem is scale. Also, we live in capitalism, so scaling is absolutely necessary to reap huge profits. Cows are not direct problem, just like gun violence?
- karagenit 4y agoI mean, photosynthesis is only about 1% efficient in the real world, whereas modern solar panels (the ones you can buy, not the ones in a research lab) are already at about 15%. I think there’s plenty of room for improvement in the efficiency of meat production too.