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Farmer: "Gentlemen. I'd like to present the ultimate plant-based protein technology." Investor 1: "We're listening." Farmer: "It converts inedible plant matter into complete protein. Grass, cornstalks, brewery waste, vegetable peelings. Anything cellulose-rich that humans can't digest." Investor 2: "Energy requirements." Farmer: "Sunlight." Investor 2: "For the plant matter, you mean." Farmer: "And for the conversion. Same sunlight. Reused." Investor 3: "Heating costs for the bioreactor." Farmer: "None. The unit holds 38.5 degrees year-round on its own." Investor 1: "Failure rate." Farmer: "Self-repairing. The unit also replicates once a year at no additional cost." Investor 3: "Replicates." Farmer: "Produces a smaller version of itself. Which becomes a full unit." Investor 2: "Net carbon." Farmer: "Neutral. The carbon in goes back to the air the grass pulled it from. Round and round, same atoms, no new ones added." Investor 1: "And the waste output." Farmer: "Twenty tonnes of soil enrichment per unit per year. The waste is also a product." Investor 2: "This would obliterate Beyond Meat." Farmer: "It already has. They just don't know yet." Investor 1: "Where can we see one." Farmer: "There are about 1.5 billion currently deployed. Have been for ten thousand years." [silence] Investor 3: "It's a cow, isn't it." Farmer: "It's a cow." Investor 2: "We were promised plant-based." Farmer: "The plant goes in one end. I don't know what else you wanted."