<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&amp;gt; People will probably always eat a lot of cow,&lt;p&gt;This is probably not true, vegan meat is progressing very fast (and once it matures has the potential to be much cheaper) and lowering the consumption of meat is important to reduce carbon emissions. I expect that demand for meat will sharply shrink in the next century</text><parent_chain><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>I am watching vegan leather keenly.&lt;p&gt;But leather as in cow leather is a great resource that would otherwise go unused if it wasn&amp;#x27;t for the market.&lt;p&gt;People will probably always eat a lot of cow, what else should we do with its skin?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itself</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repair-mycelium</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Valid point, while I have no idea how the numbers look. But butchering cows, or other animals that provide hide for leather, and then not using said leather is kind of opposite of sustainability.&lt;p&gt;Now one can argue about whether meat based diets are good or not, but as long as they exist there will be aources for leather.</text><parent_chain><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>I am watching vegan leather keenly.&lt;p&gt;But leather as in cow leather is a great resource that would otherwise go unused if it wasn&amp;#x27;t for the market.&lt;p&gt;People will probably always eat a lot of cow, what else should we do with its skin?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itself</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repair-mycelium</url></story>