It seems all these manufactured meat product companies tout the reduced environmental impact of their products vs. the somewhat more natural meat from animals.
Yet all of them fail to explain the inputs used in their processes. Something can’t come from nothing. What are the feedstocks for their products. What is the waste stream and how is it disposed of?
So much hype, so little factual information.
does everything HAVE a waste stream?
suppose there is no waste?
an aquaponics system, for example, does not.
Industrial processes usually do because the cost of proper treatment reduces profits. Unnatural substances accumulate in the environment as pollution because nature is overwhelmed or no energy harvesting organism exists.
In natural processes, nature harvests energy from the waste to support downstream life.
Aquaponics is a good example of copying and simplifying a natural process to produce calories. Although how and where the inputs (fish food) comes from is an important consideration.