When talking about lab-meat solutions, folks list many benefits. But those same benefits exist with much, much cheaper vegan and vegetarian solutions that are a

When talking about lab-meat solutions, folks list many benefits. But those same benefits exist with much, much cheaper vegan and vegetarian solutions that are already on the market. Whilst others are spending millions on lab-made meat substitutes, I've been eating economical meat-free meals that taste, to me, often indistinguishable from meat-containing dishes. These menu items expand even more for Westerners when you extend into Indian cuisine, which reaches new levels of flavour, often without meat as well. It's another area in which the solution teased by Western capitalist culture is over-engineered and over-priced, and the better solution is much simpler and just involves looking at what those outside our comfort zone have devised already.