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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Planting a seed and waiting is like 100 times less work. Not just in physical labour but in energy requirements.

You can create simpme synthetic sugars(But probably not all nutrient) in a lab, but a single gram of it would be way to expenaive to eat it.