The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

“I thought plants, trees etc. gave off mostly oxygen?”

my point was that environmental control systems tend to consume a lot of power and water. Lab protein requires a lot of both. Even if the local, facility power is generated by solar panels, somewhere along the line you can safely bet body parts that hydrocarbons were burned in producing the building and materials of the facility and the local power source. The environmental control for my grandfather’s cows was 0 and their water came from the creek. They obviously required some work but I’d bet that the human supplied power/kg protein was < than for lab protein.