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Both lithium and FBS replacements are actively in development. Perhaps it would be better to wait on even starting the cultured meat stuff till after the tech i

Both lithium and FBS replacements are actively in development. Perhaps it would be better to wait on even starting the cultured meat stuff till after the tech is available though. I suspect the environmentalist community aren't the ones that actually want it. I'm perfectly happy with plant based. I would probably eat the cultured stuff but I'd never go out of my way to buy it. It's a compromise to appeal to the general public who seem abhor the thought of vegan food, probably because of the combined efforts of vegans(The worst PR people ever!) and the manosphere/fitness community/traditional living/edgy darwin obsessed atheists who probably never read a darwin book spouting about how it's unnatural to not eat meat.

girvo 5y ago
> I suspect the environmentalist community aren't the ones that actually want it. Anecdotally, your suspicion is entirely confirmed by my experiences. None of the vegans or environmentalists I know care about or are asking for it. Plant based products are already fantastic for them along every axis they would care about.
donw 5y ago
Here's a video of Matthew Liao, the Director of Center for Bioethics at NYU, speaking to an audience about deliberately infecting the populace with a genetically engineered disease to make them allergic to meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGlE9knOf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGlE9knOf0 His position carries a great deal of power and influence, and from the reception of his talk, it is clear that his ideas are popular on the Left. This isn't a "PR problem".