jkf
55m ago
Aren't you like, standing right by the door in front of all the other people? Just step on the bus dude.
jkf
50m ago
"what if the proles hate our guts so much that they ban cultured meat out of spite?"
What if the proles have caught on to the fact that it won't be 'tasty cheap nutritious cultured meat,' it will be 'expensive goo of dubious quality', and used as leverage in support of bans/punitive taxation on regular meat -- the justification being that 'modern alternatives exist, eat shit your beans, proles'.
jkf
42m ago
The issue is that we can't have 10 billion peole living a western lifestyle on a finite planet.
Have you tried, like -- not doing that?
jkf
33m ago
Factory farms for beef basically do not exist, especially not in the united states -- the feedlots that you mention take cows that have lived on grasslands their entire lives and fatten them up a bit. This makes them, well, fattier which humans prefer, and finishes them a little faster, but you could absolutely feed the demand for beef on grass alone with minimal cost impact. (particularly compared to artificial meat)
In fact... the 'free' grasslands also have opportunity costs, since land is a finite and often fungible resource for farming.
The free grasslands look like forest/scrub -- farming other things there is not economically viable, otherwise they wouldn't be free grasslands.
You have been grievously, grievously misinformed -- please don't spread it here.
Just how near are we talking here?
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