Why can’t we just make food? Why is planting seeds and letting it grow still how we do it?

Question

Synthetic food seems like a good idea no? We used to grow rubber for example but now we just make synthetic rubber.

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To make something, you need other things

To make.”Food” you need edible things

To make bread, you need a bunch of basics like flour, yeast, water, etc. Flour comes mostly from wheat, wheat needs to be grown in fields.

We’re probably not far off having large-scale lab grown meat production and mass scale algae production that we can process I to other “foods” that are pretty close as well. But it’ll be a while before all that kicks in properly and replaces traditional farming.