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Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat

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Re: Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat

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> Can it be scaled & beat conventional slaughter economically? I'm betting that it can. I'm really skeptical of this. Feels like a "multiple PhDs later..." kind of problem. Is there are a reason why you think the research won't hit any roadblocks? And even if it succeeds, there could be insurmountable marketing issues. In the meantime, it's bad for vegetarianism. Meat eaters saying "why bother changing my diet, when…

Lab grown meat seems more plausible to me than trying to talk people into become vegetarians. But if you do figure out how to change cultures you could sell that recipe for big money to lots of folks (eg. the U.S. military)

Agreed. But selling people great vegetarian food seems easier than both of those things.
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