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> Once cultivated meat is significantly cheaper [than real meat]? Is there any real chance of that in the next, say, 100 years? I would imagine the bio engine
by simiones 3y ago
> Once cultivated meat is significantly cheaper [than real meat]?
Is there any real chance of that in the next, say, 100 years?
I would imagine the bio engineering that evolution arrived at for converting nutrients to meat+organs+bone is quite close to optimal for its purpose. If so, getting anywhere near, even if you get rid of the organs + bones*, would need a looooong time. Especially since you'd be converting cheap workers taking care of animals with bio-engineers tending meat vats in pretty good sterility.
*which anyway is probably not fully desirable if you expect the full taste of real meat
- its-summertime 3y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=cow+chicken+efficiency&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=cow+chicken+efficiency&tbm=i... doesn't seem efficient with this near comical amount of disparity between animals
- gdhkgdhkvff 3y ago100 years is a very very long time. 100 years ago, a little over half of all homes in the US still didn’t have electricity. 100 years ago, around 2/3 of homes didn’t have a telephone. I would absolutely take the bet that we would have cheaper cultivated meat within 100 years, barring an extinction level event…