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CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

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171 points rguiscard | 2 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source
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VladVladikoff ◴[12 Dec 25 04:08 UTC] No.46240782[source]▶
If the goal is reduced CO2, wouldn’t it be better to take aim at plants, rather than fungi?
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otabdeveloper4 ◴[12 Dec 25 06:04 UTC] No.46241312[source]▶
> If the goal is reduced CO2

... let's start on tearing down bullshit AI datacenters.

Oh no, a billion Nvidia cards are envronmentally friendly, you say, better to lazer-focus on the cow farts?

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ragequittah ◴[12 Dec 25 06:21 UTC] No.46241383[source]▶
The cow farts, the important forests being torn down far cattle, the important forests being torn down for soy beans that feed the cattle, the inhumane conditions in which the cattle are raised. The problem you dismissed is indeed far larger than the one you're worried about.
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1. otabdeveloper4 ◴[12 Dec 25 08:08 UTC] No.46241937[source]▶
Meat is useful. "AI" datacenters are 100% harm in every possible way. Let's start with that.
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2. ben_w ◴[12 Dec 25 11:39 UTC] No.46243172[source]▶
Meat was useful, back when we had not yet selectively bred fantastically better than natural crops of all kinds, back when we had not yet invented synthetic fertiliser that's now the ultimate source of 70-80% of the nitrogen in a the body of someone in an industrialised nation, back when hunger was a bigger problem than obesity.

Now? Now meat's mostly a problem, not a good thing. Even if you ignore every ethical argument, regardless of if your concerns are your own health or the environment, meat's not good.

Data centres… well, I think this is a bubble, I also want it to be a bubble for various reasons, but the AI running on them today is in fact already useful.

Even if current AI wasn't at all useful (despite it having about half to one quarter of the market size as meat), it does so at a cost of several orders of magnitude less environmental harm than meat. Convincing half of the population to have "meat-free Mondays" would do about as much as switching off all the DCs including the non-AI ones, given the estimates from Greenpeace for AI https://www.greenpeace.de/publikationen/20250514-greenpeace-... and Our World In Data https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector