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by 0dayz 1493 days ago
I don't think at the end of the day that the issue is the sustainablility of meat that will be its downfall (with the exception of greed, as you can see already with the big shots in the meat industry trying to lobby away lab grown meat / TLM products even though they barely exist).

Instead it's the very wasteful food culture especially the west has, let's take steak as an example, for the around 5 steaks a family of 3 will eat you could easily make a stew for 4 with only 3 of those steaks.

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This is not a good example of waste. Also, I don't agree that people like to waste food or resource. There is no reason to waste food unless you are super duper rich. And according to normal distribution majority of people aren't rich, even in America.
How exactly is eating and fully digesting something "waste"?

Is it a waste for me to use a nice keyboard because a cheap 5 quid one will do?

That's a very lenient definition of waste, when nothing keeps you from eating that stew without steak.

Pretty sure the bigger problem is still the tons of food we throw away after going through everything to grow and ship it.