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Yes, everything is expensive in the beginning until it's not. We knew this of things like solar energy and other renewables. It needs to be worked on, early ado

Yes, everything is expensive in the beginning until it's not. We knew this of things like solar energy and other renewables. It needs to be worked on, early adopters will support it then it will take off when the price starts to drop and production goes up. I dislike comments like this that seem to just be dismissive of a new technology without adding any real insight. Everyone knows things are expensive in the beginning so what's the point of saying it's not going to work unless it's cheaper than real meat. It's really obvious. Furthermore, oil has tried to undercut their prices to fend off other forms of energy (specially renewables), people and countries are still choosing renewables as a way to the future because it makes sense. An alternative to raising livestock with clean meat is something that also makes sense and I think quite a lot of people are eager to proceed with this alternative.

freeflight 9y ago
> Yes, everything is expensive in the beginning until it's not. Some things will always stay more expensive than their cheaper alternatives, case in point: Organic farmed meat vs mass farmed. The former will always stay more expensive than the later because you can produce that much more meat on the same space, you can produce it cheaper by feeding lesser quality food to the animals. Is the resulting meat a "better meat"? No, but it is the cheaper meat and that's still what the vast majority of consumers are looking for. > I dislike comments like this that seem to just be dismissive of a new technology without adding any real insight. It wasn't meant to be dismissive about the technology, merely pointing out that as long as this ain't cost competitive it will just be another niche solution for the "Let's feel better about ourselves by throwing money around" crowd and we already have plenty of those. Silicon Valley/SF is a microcosmos on its own, some things might work there, yet rarely do these things scale up outside of that niche-customer market, but that's exactly the kind of solution we need if we want large parts of humanity to change their ways about how they treat animals and animal products.

freeflight 9y ago

> Yes, everything is expensive in the beginning until it's not. Some things will always stay more expensive than their cheaper alternatives, case in point: Organic farmed meat vs mass farmed. The former will always stay more expensive than the later because you can produce that much more meat on the same space, you can produce it cheaper by feeding lesser quality food to the animals. Is the resulting meat a "better meat"? No, but it is the cheaper meat and that's still what the vast majority of consumers are looking for. > I dislike comments like this that seem to just be dismissive of a new technology without adding any real insight. It wasn't meant to be dismissive about the technology, merely pointing out that as long as this ain't cost competitive it will just be another niche solution for the "Let's feel better about ourselves by throwing money around" crowd and we already have plenty of those. Silicon Valley/SF is a microcosmos on its own, some things might work there, yet rarely do these things scale up outside of that niche-customer market, but that's exactly the kind of solution we need if we want large parts of humanity to change their ways about how they treat animals and animal products.