[ThorsBane]

Vertical farms and clean lab-grown proteins are the key!

Unfortunately, this key spells doom for the global chicken population.

Ironically, the push to save the chickens will be what causes their population to plummet towards extinction outside of zoos and the odd house that retains some as pets.

[galleywest200]

You forgot about eggs and their heavy use in things such as baking. I suppose you can grow an egg in a lab but producing a fully fledged quasi-viable cell is more difficult than a hunk of muscle tissue.

[abracadaniel]

You could probably grow the egg proteins, or a subset, separately easier than growing meat. They already do this for cultured cow milk. They even skip the lactose to make it easier and more digestible. Maybe we’ll be able to buy cultured egg whites and yolks at whatever ratio we want.

[twelve40]

Once vegans take over the world, there will be no reason (and no economic basis) for chickens or cows to exist at all. But there will be less methane emissions and animal suffering.

Come to think of it, the best to live is some place like the Moon that has negligible methane and no animal suffering.

[birracerveza]

Vertical farms? Sure.

Lab-grown proteins? No thank you, I'd rather starve. Same goes for bug-based food. If YOU want to eat them then sure, I won't stop you, but I'll be the old man that keeps repeating that back in my day meat came from farm animals, and I'll beat with my walking stick anyone who tries to feed me ""meat"".

[ThorsBane]

I still think it should be fine to grow your own meat the traditional farming way. Humanity should never lose the knowledge and capability.

[birracerveza]

Exactly, it's fine to have the option, but for it to completely (or mostly) replace the meat industry? That's a no from me. If you want less carbon emissions there are other, better ways than replacing the way humans fed themselves for millennia. Granted, industrial/processed food is not exactly the same, but still much closer to "real" meat than lab meat.