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Meat plants use more water than the population of Brighton (www.grilled.media)
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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

One does provide food though, which is important. The other provides wrong answers, unnecessarily long descriptions, and acts like your mate. Let's dig into that...

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Do we need either though? Humans survived for a long time without data centers or meat processing plants.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We did, but we ate meat for most of that time and most still do. The scale of humanity requires mechanisation of some sort. Most people won't turn to plant based or lab grown unless they have no choice, unfortunately.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    It's only with industrialisation that people started eating meat with every meal, and as the article makes clear, that level of production requires a lot of resources. We need to find a more sustainable way to feed people.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    As food production becomes more and more centralized in macro farms, resource over utilization and environment saturation is becoming a larger problem.
    Because we're moving away from a large number of small producers and manufacturers to a hyperconsolidated vertical food manufacturer, this will become the norm, so will price gauging.

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