and see the long train of grain cars!!! We're talking a LOT of grain.
For the retired dairy cattle, "think fast food" -- US hamburgers are not going away at all soon!
Point: No way, not a chance, not even a teeny, tiny chance, will that huge industry and supply chain, with huge fractions of the land in the US South and Midwest devoted to growing animal feed, be displaced or even affected by "laboratory" anything.
Sure, we grow some mushrooms in caves. And some greenhouses grow tomatoes and maybe oregano, bib lettuce, basil, rosemary, etc. But greenhouses and hydroponics both go way back with no chance of anything similar having a big, new impact now.
Well, let me think! I just ate a home cooked pizza. The total calories were 654, and 455 of those were from just the flour, a "plant based food"!
More generally, in the US, big time grocery store items are milk, butter, cream, eggs, beef, chickens, and pork.
For feeding the animals, we have grass, hay, wheat, corn, and soy beans. E.g., look at a rail yard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qv7y0W_mNM
and see the long train of grain cars!!! We're talking a LOT of grain.
For the retired dairy cattle, "think fast food" -- US hamburgers are not going away at all soon!
Point: No way, not a chance, not even a teeny, tiny chance, will that huge industry and supply chain, with huge fractions of the land in the US South and Midwest devoted to growing animal feed, be displaced or even affected by "laboratory" anything.
Sure, we grow some mushrooms in caves. And some greenhouses grow tomatoes and maybe oregano, bib lettuce, basil, rosemary, etc. But greenhouses and hydroponics both go way back with no chance of anything similar having a big, new impact now.