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Lab grown meat is expensive due to its low volume. That should change as volume ramps up. It’s also relatively expensive compared to the feedlot stuff in part
by gumby 3y ago
Lab grown meat is expensive due to its low volume. That should change as volume ramps up.
It’s also relatively expensive compared to the feedlot stuff in part for the reason above and in part because externalities (e.g. GHG emissions) are not priced in yet.
The promise is that on a net/net basis the lab will be better. We’ll see.
As a diabetic I get a lot of protein and calories from meat bc I don’t want a lot of carbs. I’d be much happier with lab-sourced animal proteins, especially if there were a little game from time to time. Factory farm meat lacks a lot of flavor anyway.
- jncfhnb 3y agoLab grown meat is not going to be easy to scale up. Keeping giant bioreactors free of contaminations is hard.
- rajnathani 3y agoI remember reading on HN, on more than one occasion, that the unit cost of production of lab grown meat is always going to be very high. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621288
- gumby 3y agoI’m hopeful that there will be enough economic incentive to tip the balance. But nobody knows right now.