Oh come on don’t do the vegan nihilism thing, you could even say increased grain production is used to fuel animal farming. That doesn’t mean agricultural technology isn’t exciting.

Methanol is used for lots of stuff I think it eventually goes into plastic yeah it’s exciting.

Do you mean chemical feedstock or animal feed?

This could also be a source of protein for mushrooms or insects (yum), or maybe they can find a way to process this into stuff for agriculture. Finding this pathway is just part of engineering more crazy Yellowstone/Mariana Trench microbes.

I’m sure I’m ignorant of potential industrial grade protein applications