Biology is greener and, at scale, should be incredibly cost-effective: The cost of goods sold should be little more than the sugar water needed to brew almost anything.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.
To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality food that's going to be better for your health and better for the environment.
Growing your own garden is way less expensive than going out shopping and eating.
We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.
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