Lab-Grown Chicken Is Now Legal for Sale in the US

Post by ezekg » Sat, Jun 24, 2023, 1:34 AM UTC

crgwbr wrote: post #60

ezekg wrote: post #27

> The company plans to make 50,000 pounds of meat per year there to start, eventually scaling up to more than 400,000 pounds per year. Doesn't sound like they're planning on things being very popular. I buy >5 lb of chicken every month (family of 4). I imagine bigger families buy more. But let's assume I'm average -- so 50k lbs a year comes out to a little over 800 customers a year. So not a lot. Even their "big" pro…

Even 5 lbs a month per family seems extremely conservative. My family of two, not four, goes through more like 15-20 lbs of chicken a month.

Post by randomdata » Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 1:54 PM UTC

seneca wrote: post #38

randomdata wrote: post #14

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> If 1 animal dies and all of humanity can stop eating meat, I'm happy to do that. You still need resources to grow the meat, and many animals will be harmed and killed in the process of extracting those resources. Probably many more animals than would be harmed using traditional meat raising practices as when humans extract resources we like to strip things bare. Other animals tend to be a lot gentler on habitats. O…

> You still need resources to grow the meat, and many animals will be harmed and killed in the process of extracting those resources. This is an absurd stretch of the definition of veganism. If this were accepted, you couldn't call anyone living in any basic form of civilization vegan. It stretches the idea to a point of being useless. No homes allowed, since their material extraction and the construction process har…