This! Would love if we spent some of that sweet AI money into engineered new food sources. I've been watching Soylent for a while now. Food that can be made in space is what we need for interplanetary travel. Qudos to this crispr research!
> Food that can be made in space is what we need for interplanetary travel.
Given how fucked up astronauts who spends just a few month in space come back to earth I think we have dozens if not hundreds of other things to solve before even considering food. Your bones, muscles, eyes, circulatory system, &c. are not made for anything other than good ol earth
We had a pretty huge "fake meat" funding craze in 2021. Beyond meat traded at >$200 for a bit, now it is $1. Not sure why it all burned out and disappeared.
It all burned out because the market for 'fake meat' is tiny, the meat loving ethical or ignorant vegetarians. The vast bulk of the vegetarian market would prefer a lentil burger. In the real market for 'fake meat', it needs to compete economically with factory chicken, which is one of the cheapest protein sources on the planet.
