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I'm pretty sure that the poultry industry is already receiving major agricultural subsidies to get to that price.

• Falling3 5y ago
  Yep. Animal ag is both directly and indirectly subsidized pretty heavily in the US. If we removed their subsidies and moved them to lab grown meat, the economics work out in favor of the latter much sooner.
• xjlin0 5y ago
  Not only benefits from human economical point of view, but traditional farming also help environment in certain area. Animals convert plants (grass and beans from solar energy) to manure for benefiting soil. It's human that didn't evenly distribute it well. Lab-grown meat doesn't have that yet. ps. Not comparing wild ecology to human farming, just comparing traditional farming with lab-grown tech here.
• spywaregorilla 5y ago
  That's almost certainly true, in the very least in the form of corn subsidies for feed. My point was more that there are millions of jobs in the poultry industry alone. This is an existential threat to an enormous job market. One that is likely to become very messy. I think the US will struggle greatly to embrace this quickly, but nations that don't have large farming populations have a huge incentive to create a strong lab grown meat industry and export it. Very big economic opportunity, as well as another impending wave of poverty and irrelevance for traditional players.