50
China approves CO2-turned protein as feed material
(english.news.cn)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
50 points (98.1% liked)
Technology
1155 readers
60 users here now
A tech news sub for communists
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Fuck me! We aren't going to eat the bugs in the pods. We are going to eat climate change.
Not really. This falls under CO2 utilization, which converts waste CO2 into more useful stuff. Because cows/pigs eat the yeast protein, and we eat the cows/pigs and burn them as calories, we re-release the CO2 in our breath.
This tech is better classed as precision fermentation, and unfortunately has little to do with fighting climate change.
Indirectly it has to do with ficghting climate change tho. The utilized CO2 stems from heavy industry, meaning heavy industry can now double as supplier for the basics of food production. As the resulting yeast is much more efficient per hectare than soy, this means less deforestation for soy fields. Meaning the CO2 bound in the forests stays right there. Less CO2 emissions, fuck yeah!
Good point, though I don't think deforestation is a big problem in China anymore. What more efficient food production does allow is reforesting excess soy farming fields, which will definitely sequester carbon while restoring the environment.
If the technology catches on it could have major impact in some places, namely south america.