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nulliusansverba t1_iwtkv2n wrote

Reply to comment by QualityKoalaTeacher in In an Industry First, Upside Foods’ Lab-Grown Chicken Gets FDA Approval by izumi3682

How do you figure?

USA alone hatches over 10 billion chickens a year.

Wholesale you're looking at under a buck a pound.

You really think this stuff with limited supply is going to compete?

How about Olympic sized pools. So do you realize how many of those it would take in equivalent vats to produce 10 billion chickens worth of meat?

How much energy and resources?

You think you can make something more efficient than biology? Hahaha.

Internet people are so hopelessly detached from reality.

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QualityKoalaTeacher t1_iwtla5j wrote

> You think you can make something more efficient than biology? Hahaha.

Yes its called scientific advancement.

Ever heard of synthetic compounds?

Do you think vitamin supplements are made of crushed up plants?

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nulliusansverba t1_iwtp56y wrote

Aren't you a delightful mix of loose screws and missing marbles.

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[deleted] t1_iwtwu66 wrote

How can you be so confidently stupid?

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xtrylanx t1_iwu86q6 wrote

Wait until he discovers that fertilizers are artificial

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LustigerVampir t1_iwuivfm wrote

Takes one to know one.

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nulliusansverba t1_iwy22fq wrote

So give me the answer, jackass.

How much energy and resources are needed to vat grow 10 billion chickens worth of meat?

Let me guess. You can't answer it. Stoopid.

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anecdotal_yokel t1_iwu4xkk wrote

r/confidentlywrong

Are you Mennonite? Do you ride a horse to work instead of car/train/bus/telework? Do you travel abroad using only sailed vessels? Do you only source your ice from frozen freshwater lakes? Do you not eat food produced using fertilizer? (Not to mention literal GMOs) Do you think modern chickens aren’t heavily bioengineered to be unnaturally large and grow at an unnatural pace? Even the current chicken producing industry took 50 years to get to where it is now. But you think that this new industry needs to be up to the same levels as soon as they are approved… what an intellectually dishonest argument.

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pale_blue_dots t1_iwusaar wrote

Not sure why you feel the need to be so pompous and egotistical. It's really off-putting and embarrassing.

Anyway, you may be right in some respects, at least in the short term. Though, the energy needed to produce/grow, say, 1/3 of a chicken versus 1/1 chicken - that's to say only the muscles and not the brain and other organs, which require a ton of energy, is another way to look at it - and why it will eventually reduce the energy needed.

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