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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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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    What an odd title. I thought there was some sort of new plant species that can grow meat.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 month ago

    Today I learnt that meat plants use more water than data centres!

    Meat plants use nearly six times as much water as the UK’s data centres, according to Water UK estimates, but most data centre water is consumed, evaporating during cooling.

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Off the back of that event, the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) called for processing sites to have "continuous access to water, irrespective of wider pressures on local supplies". Water companies are currently required by law to prioritise households over businesses during shortages. The request remains unresolved

    I think that is a pretty sensible law and should remain unchanged. I could potentially see an argument for food production being given a priority above some less important things though, like a golf course or car wash. But then that could also open up considerations of which parts of food production? Some foods use orders of magnitude more water than others, meat generally being the most inefficient option.

    You could eat the grain that would have been given to the chickens and then you don't even need a meat processing facility and don't need to bother growing most of the grain.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    food production being given a priority above some less important things though, like a golf course or car wash

    You mean the UK should prioritise things that actually matter? Outrageous!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I thought water use was only bad when AI did it

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