• lovesickoyster@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This ban is completely pointless because lab grown meat will always be an expensive nieche product anyway.

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      9 months ago

      Not at all. The goal is getting the price comparable. They’re pretty close. It’s SO much cheaper to grow it than to raise actual animals. And you don’t have to worry about your animals getting sick, infecting the others, and killing off an entire group.

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      9 months ago

      It seems that way now, but we don’t know how expensive it may or may not be in the future.

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        9 months ago

        it may or may not be in the future

        the problem is bioreactors just don’t scale - at all. Maybe there’s some kind of breakthrough but my personal opinion (as a biochemist working with bioreactors) is that not for a long time.