• troybot [he/him]
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    8 days ago

    I’d like to think mass extinction of livestock would help stop climate change, but then capitalism would just invent a meat cloning factory that would produce double the methane

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      It’s actually kind of an issue right now with single-cell protein production. These companies are popping up with these very electricity intensive ways of culturing yeasts or bacteria for protein and if it takes off on our dirty grid, it’d result in a lot of CO2 emissions.