>>512662307It's easier to scale up a chemical factory than it is a bunch of farm animals.
I mean the logic itself isn't exactly bad:
>Cows eat grass, and turn that into milk, which we ferment and turn into butter.>Can we skip the cow, grass, milking, and maybe fermentation and just directly turn base elements into digestible food through chemistry?Technically the answer is "Yes we can", because that is, after all, how nature is doing it. Our process is simply inefficient.
However, our current process is also a known quantity that works. We do not know how to exactly replicate healthy foods through chemistry/biochemistry, and there's every chance that we end up creating stuff like aspartame which doesn't quite behave like a sugar, and isn't quite digested by our body, and yet partly is, or is by some people's gut bacteria, and there's no real long term understanding of how it all works out in the end.
There are some things I can stand corner cutting on, but my food is not one of those things.