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Great stuff. I was thinking about this after watching a talk by the Beyond Meat CEO in which he states that instead of using animals to rearrange plant proteins into animal proteins (muscles), they're taking the animal out of the equation.

My next thought was, can't you take the plant out of the equation too? How difficult is it to rearrange these nutrients from a fertilizer mix straight into something resembling animal proteins (though easier for humans to digest)? I wonder at what point plants scale better than raw conversion of fertilizer to whatever protein these companies seem to be synthesizing.