Scientists aiming to completely replace animal protein by manufacturing it from thin air
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51019798
I wonder how many esential nutrients it will provide for us. How many of the amino acides it supplies.
I just watched the programme and I was appalled by the one sided bias! I know that this was the view of one person/team but where was the research into the products that would need to be brought in? Where was the countering argument? (The Welsh dairy farmer tried, but wasn't given much of an opportunity to make any substantive points.) I daresay that plenty of artificially produced nutrients could be added to the artificially produced food but who knows what the long term health effects of those would be?
What would happen to all those farm animals and wild ones currently essential to the food chain? Would they all have to be slaughtered? And then, presumably, incinerated (as in the foot and mouth epidemic of recent memory) because as an enforced vegan society it would probably be illegal to eat them.
It's all very well to declare that "scientists" can do this but no mention of peer reviewed scientific papers being published, or of other scientists being able to either replicate or scale up the claimed results.
With the world demanding more and more electricity for fuel, I don't know if it would be possible to provide sufficient power to produce food out of the air, as well as enough to stop us burning oil and gas to keep homes warm, food refrigerated/frozen, cars and public transport running etc.
There is land on this planet which will not grow crops, or even trees. Must it then be left to grow peat bogs (well, yes they are supposed to be useful in absorbing CO
2,I know). In the Hebrides our land is so cold and wet and the climate so poor that nothing much grows, other than peat, grass and heather. Some trees do struggle to survive, but they don't last very long - the soil is too shallow and badly drained. And then there are the deserts.
I do hope that Channel 4 will put on another programme to refute the statements put forward in this one.