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It would make me jump from pure joy, but what gives you the idea there was a pending collapse of cattle farming?
by 9dev 3y ago
It would make me jump from pure joy, but what gives you the idea there was a pending collapse of cattle farming?
- phtrivier 3y agoData shows a very tiny downard trend in the last decade [1] - I'm not exactly sure how you can project that into a "collapse", but, hey, "predictions are hard, especially about the future", I guess ? [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-population-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-pop...
- jes5199 3y agocheck out https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture
- dublinben 3y agoThe demographics don’t look good for the beef industry. https://www.wired.com/story/beef-consumption-boomers/ https://www.wired.com/story/beef-consumption-boomers/
- jes5199 3y agoprecision fermentation and lab-grown meat both exhibit cost curves analogous to Moore’s Law. within the next ten years, they’ll outcompete animal products in many situations. the first domino to fall will be milk-extracts used in processed food products, see startups like “Remilk”
- 9dev 3y agoLast time I read up on this topic, there were numerous issues that made mass production of vat meat just plain unable to compete with animal meat. Has that really changed?
- jes5199 3y agoit’s really about price and the technological learning curve. Currently it’s expensive, but that won’t be true forever