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I feel like this is just a statement that the market for meat is supermassive and you can't just overnight have your production capacity at comparable levels to
by Spivak 3y ago
I feel like this is just a statement that the market for meat is supermassive and you can't just overnight have your production capacity at comparable levels to that of the entire country.
Meat itself used to be a niche luxury item.
- chrismatic 3y agoThere is a significant difference between scaling up high-tech pharma-grade facilities and just breeding more cattle.
- ghusto 3y agoThis is actually a good point. I think I agree with the author that synthetic meat production as a 1:1 replacement for current meat consumption is not feasible, but that only leads me to question whether we should be eating all that meat in the first place. I'm not a heavy meat eater myself — about once every 9 days — and I've read that the amount of meat I consume is the norm for human beings for most of our existence, and it's in fact unhealthy to eat much more than that. So maybe the answer isn't synthetic meat, it's just not smashing animals into our faces for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.