I love plant based food and will eat it rather than meat any day. I’m far from a vegan though. A couple of friends are vegan and refuse to eat plant based food which even resembles a meat product. Burgers which imitate beef for example. I personally think these products are great as it gives meat eaters something to relate to and try plant based food.
Lab meat though. I’m struggling to understand this. Unless the meat industry shuts down most people aren’t going to eat lab meat. And like you said it doesn’t offer a good enough reason to switch for most people. Some people might switch but it will have no impact on the meat supply chain.
Lab meat though. I’m struggling to understand this. Unless the meat industry shuts down most people aren’t going to eat lab meat. And like you said it doesn’t offer a good enough reason to switch for most people. Some people might switch but it will have no impact on the meat supply chain.
There’s a pretty large amount of people who are vaguely uncomfortable with the animal cruelty in the meat and dairy industries but can’t get over themselves to completely change their diet to a plant-based one.
I also expect lab grown meat to be both cheaper and more environmentally friendly once the technology is more advanced and mature. It doesn’t really make sense to compare an immature technology like this to conventional food right now.
I love plant based food and will eat it rather than meat any day. I’m far from a vegan though. A couple of friends are vegan and refuse to eat plant based food which even resembles a meat product. Burgers which imitate beef for example. I personally think these products are great as it gives meat eaters something to relate to and try plant based food.
Lab meat though. I’m struggling to understand this. Unless the meat industry shuts down most people aren’t going to eat lab meat. And like you said it doesn’t offer a good enough reason to switch for most people. Some people might switch but it will have no impact on the meat supply chain.
There’s a pretty large amount of people who are vaguely uncomfortable with the animal cruelty in the meat and dairy industries but can’t get over themselves to completely change their diet to a plant-based one.
I also expect lab grown meat to be both cheaper and more environmentally friendly once the technology is more advanced and mature. It doesn’t really make sense to compare an immature technology like this to conventional food right now.
Economics of scale, simple. If a sausage with lab grown meat is 75% of the regular sausages, or cheaper a big portion of the populous will switch.
The more people that switch the bigger the scale gets. Till it gets to the most efficient input -> meat like product.