re: #219 ericblair

The study they quote says that culture production takes about 40% less energy per 1000kg of meat than conventional European farming (here).

The issue is that to create “lab-grown” meat or similar cultured foods takes high-grade energy i.e. electricity and that means more fossil fuel being burned to generate that electricity, right now and well into the future. Hill farms and steppe herding don’t involve much fossil fuel consumption even if the amount of meat produced per hectare is low. Intensive-agriculture production of meat does use fossil fuels but even then a lot of the energy input per kilo of ranched meat is solar in nature, photosynthesis providing pasturage and even corn for finish-feedlot operations.

Speaking of herding, the sperm whale population worldwide has made a big comeback over the past few decades and is now ripe for harvesting…

ObMobyDick: “Look out, it’s coming right for us!”