Originally Posted by
Gofer Blue
In the not-too-distant future meat will be grown in laboratories using cell cultures to produce muscle fibres. The implications will be vast. No more livestock farming as we know it, maybe just a few specialist farms for the "connisseurs" who will pay extortionate prices for "real" meat. The end of veterinary medicines with consequent elimination of the huge volumes of antibiotics given to food producing animals. Vast reduction in the number of vets required. Reduction in greenhouse gas production (methane) and more land dedicated to planting trees or plants for human consumption rather than for producing food for animals. Thousands of farmers released to grow cereal/vegetable crops etc.
Maybe you can think of other examples.