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the impending collapse of cattle farming will cause the majority of agricultural land to return to the wild. This is a larger amount of land than all other human activities combined

>>jes519+(OP)
It would make me jump from pure joy, but what gives you the idea there was a pending collapse of cattle farming?

>>9dev+y1
Data shows a very tiny downard trend in the last decade [1] - I'm not exactly sure how you can project that into a "collapse", but, hey, "predictions are hard, especially about the future", I guess ?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-pop...

>>9dev+y1
The demographics don’t look good for the beef industry.

https://www.wired.com/story/beef-consumption-boomers/

>>9dev+y1
precision fermentation and lab-grown meat both exhibit cost curves analogous to Moore’s Law. within the next ten years, they’ll outcompete animal products in many situations. the first domino to fall will be milk-extracts used in processed food products, see startups like “Remilk”

>>phtriv+m2
check out https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture

>>jes519+Ra1
Last time I read up on this topic, there were numerous issues that made mass production of vat meat just plain unable to compete with animal meat. Has that really changed?

>>9dev+tC1
it’s really about price and the technological learning curve. Currently it’s expensive, but that won’t be true forever