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Vertical farms are not a dream nor science fiction. They are real and they're producing food today.
Vertical farms are not a dream nor science fiction. They are real and they're producing food today.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
Ivem!eamt to send this in for awhile, I've actually been quite eager to try it, if at all possible, meat without guilt, you kmow? There's a lot of stuff on it, sites, YouTube, I just thought you'd care to see it....
Ivem!eamt to send this in for awhile, I've actually been quite eager to try it, if at all possible, meat without guilt, you kmow? There's a lot of stuff on it, sites, YouTube, I just thought you'd care to see it....
Cultured meat, also called clean meat, lab-grown meat, test tube meat, tube steak, or in vitro meat, is meat grown in cell culture instead of inside animals.[1] It is a form of cellular agriculture. Cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine.[2] The first cultured beef burger patty, created by Dr. Mark Post at Maastricht University, was eaten at a demonstration for...
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I will agree this is probably the future of crop farming. It certainly mitigates the risks that most crop farmer's face.
The one issue you do not hear discussed in these mini-presentations is the actual retail cost of the produce. On a per lb. basis it is more expensive than the most expensive cuts of meat you will find in your local supermarket, and provides so few calories per dollar spent that it is most likely going to be limited to the nation's financially elite for another two to three decades, possibly longer.
Additionally, it is energy intensive, even with LED lights.
Having tasted hi-tech hydroponic produce and good old manure fertilized produce, I'm partial to manure grown.
I have no doubt the mind of man will eventually overcome those problems.
The one issue you do not hear discussed in these mini-presentations is the actual retail cost of the produce. On a per lb. basis it is more expensive than the most expensive cuts of meat you will find in your local supermarket, and provides so few calories per dollar spent that it is most likely going to be limited to the nation's financially elite for another two to three decades, possibly longer.
Additionally, it is energy intensive, even with LED lights.
Having tasted hi-tech hydroponic produce and good old manure fertilized produce, I'm partial to manure grown.
I have no doubt the mind of man will eventually overcome those problems.
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