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Lab grown meat is the industry I'd pick if I had to pick where the next rags to world's richest person will come from. Can it be scaled & beat conventional sla
by grizzles 9y ago
Lab grown meat is the industry I'd pick if I had to pick where the next rags to world's richest person will come from.
Can it be scaled & beat conventional slaughter economically? I'm betting that it can. And it will disrupt a 100B+ annual industry.
- adamnemecek 9y agoI agree to some extent but selling physical products, let alone perishable products is an insane endeavor.
- SapphireSun 9y agoTell that to farmers, grocers, restauranteurs, laboratories, chemists, and many many other industries. Those problems are real, and they need solving even if their profit margins are lower (which is not always true).
- lovemenot 9y agoYou assume the massively successful product would the lab grown meat itself. It might be, but perhaps a bigger hit could be elsewhere: in licensing technology; support services; leasing lab equipment; consumable ingredients or something else entirely.
- erikpukinskis 9y ago> Can it be scaled & beat conventional slaughter economically? I'm betting that it can. I'm really skeptical of this. Feels like a "multiple PhDs later..." kind of problem. Is there are a reason why you think the research won't hit any roadblocks? And even if it succeeds, there could be insurmountable marketing issues. In the meantime, it's bad for vegetarianism. Meat eaters saying "why bother changing my diet, when lab grown meat will be here soon?" We need to eat more plants. We need to travel fewer miles. We need to dump less potable water into the sea. We need to throw away less packaging and stuff. We can't always wait for the perfect 1:1 replacement eco-technology. We also need to figure out how to change our culture. People all over the world learned how to survive just fine without without eating a half pound of flesh per day. Why are we clinging to these practices?
- grizzles 9y agoLab grown meat seems more plausible to me than trying to talk people into become vegetarians. But if you do figure out how to change cultures you could sell that recipe for big money to lots of folks (eg. the U.S. military)
- erikpukinskis 9y agoAgreed. But selling people great vegetarian food seems easier than both of those things.
- ctack 9y agoI agree with the sentiment that we need to change, but I do not think it is going to happen - we will only collectively change when we are forced to.