And, even if it did offset it, you've still achieved less antibiotics resistance and zoonotic pathogen (like COVID) risk. The closer our food is to us, the clos

And, even if it did offset it, you've still achieved less antibiotics resistance and zoonotic pathogen (like COVID) risk. The closer our food is to us, the closer its pathogens are to our pathogens. Mammals are very close to us, biologically. Plants are about as distant as we can get. They're crawling with viruses, but we don't notice them since they're all designed for plant cells!