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okay, but what's the resource consumption like? that's the major issue with meat farming - it takes all the resources necessary to grow food for the animals, and also all the resources necessary to keep and grow the animals themselves. If you need more meat in the same timeframe you can always just raise more pigs.
Whatever that is right now, I'd say it's at least more animal friendly, and you can control waste and pollution better, making it cleaner.
Over time, efficiency can be improved as well
I'd say it's a very good step
Quick search shows that it is better from a resource standpoint for pretty much all resources:
https://scienceline.org/2019/01/the-truth-about-lab-grown-meat/
And this was from a decade ago. I imagine they've improved the resource need quite a bit since then.
I mean, theoretically this makes only the parts we want to eat and makes it directly instead of an offshoot of all the other biological processes like growing to the right age and ratio and growing the parts needed to keep it alive all that time. So my ass pull non educated thought process would assume the end result should require faaaaarrr less energy assumption for the same amount of meat?
I mean what don't we eat/ use? I hate to imagine a world with only boneless wings. or not having a ham bone to make soup with after easter. my dogs would miss their dehydrated chicken feet. my stock would miss the chicken backs and necks and etc. shame we can't just raise headless animals.
I mean, if we can grow one organ we can grow them all