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In prinxipal fine. In fact I would like to understand the resource intensiveness of the supply chain and health effects. Wonder if vegitarian is better direction for example.
Yeah I don't think I could go vegan but I could maybe go vegetarian, I've already pretty much stopped all red meat, but I do rely on chicken breast quite a bit for my protein and I don't think I could live without eggs and dairy products.
I am thinking on the margin. Might be better to reduce meat rather then replace with synthetic meat.
Once one has done that, compare what is left including synthetic.
You're probably right, these fake meats are ultra-processed so their CO2 emission might not be all that great and regardless I'm not trying to increase how much processed food I eat...
It is complicated. There is land out there that is not suitable for agriculture on one hand so free range grass fed might not be that bad, but herd animals produce methane too which is a powerful greenhouse gas. Then there is the whole question of eating meat from live animals as well if one cares about that and synthetic might be a way around that. Then of course the whole eco footprint issue. It would be interesting to know more.