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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Because we evolved to eat the energy produced by plants. Even our meat eats the energy produce by plants. If you were to create chemical energy that we could somehow ingest and was bioavailable for our bodies, you still have to get the energy from somewhere not to mention the plethora of other fats, vitamins, proteins, and phytochemicals we need. That e egg would ultimately come from the sun or i suppose it could come from nuclear energy. It would be a tasteless inefficient and dirty process. Our current is renewable and biodegradability
Consider the **social** aspects of it. Think about how many cuisines there are around the world, how many *thousands upon thousands* of different dishes are commonly eaten. Would you give all that up for some synthetic sludge? Even if we could create synthetic food, it would be so unappealing as to not count as food unless we invested even more resources to make it anything close to real food.
For our purposes, plants are solar powered food making machines, and livestock are plant powered food making machines. We can’t yet make our own machines that do it more efficiently.
That being said, because raising livestock requires so much food and land there’s incentive for lab-grown meat, which can already be done. At the moment it is prohibitively expensive, but I believe that with further technological improvement and efficiency of scale it may one day be cheaper than natural meat.
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