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I think the notion of "lab-grown meat" is laughable. As mentioned in another reply, it seems to be based on this idea that we can somehow grow in a lab somethin
by sjwalter 5y ago
I think the notion of "lab-grown meat" is laughable. As mentioned in another reply, it seems to be based on this idea that we can somehow grow in a lab something that requires an incredibly complex environment to grow into healthy food, that we can somehow simulate these conditions, and that the result will somehow be just as good as, e.g., 100% pasture-raised Angus.
- judge2020 5y agoImpossible's rumored $10B valuation[0] and BYND's current market cap of $7B would say otherwise. Once you have a product, the only limiting factor is how much you can scale. 0: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/impossible-foods-ipo-spac-stock-market-listing-10-billion-valuation-2021-4 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/impossible-f...
- sjwalter 5y agoThese, I've learned upthread, are not "lab-grown meat" producers, at least not yet. They're in the factory-produced GMO soy-based, highly-processed meatlike substance business, currently.
- harpersealtako 5y agoIt doesn't need to be as good as the grass fed kobe beefsteak, it just needs to be as good as the feedlot mcdonalds hamburger. I'm optimistic about lab meat -- not because it will make everybody vegan (it won't), but because it might be able to create an alternative to the cheap factory-farmed meat we have today, enabling us to pass legislation to ban abusive factory farming practices without severely affecting consumers. The people who want quality meat will go to farmers like you, the people who want a chicken tender will buy it from the lab-grown folks, and the net amount of suffering in the universe decreases just a little.