As a thinking experiment, let us consider that on the 1st of January of 2025 it is announced that an advance making possible growing any kind of animal tissue in laboratory conditions as been achieved and that it is possible to scale it in order to achieve industrial grade production level.
There is no limit on which animal tissues can be grown, so, any species is achieveable, only being needed a small cell sample from an animal to start productio, and the cultivated tissues are safe for consumption.
There won’t be any perceiveable price change to the end consummer, as the growing is a complex and labour intensive process, requiring specialized equipments and personnel.
Would you change to this new diet option?
I would sooner argue for eating insects vs. lab-grown protein made by a corporation. I have no trust for corporations to produce safe and emergent solutions to the problems we face as a species and world. They have no incentive to do the right thing and put the brakes on when things are looking bad.
As someone that has the genetic trait that enables me to smell insects… thank you, but no thank you.
Regarding corporations controlling lab meat production: regulation, control, overview.
Those are fairy tail words in the US
There is more to the world than the US.
Hence why I said “in the US” genius…
Why, thank you, Mr. President. It’s an honor to get a compliment from a personality such as yourself.
I always assume any hypothetical beneficial scenario is happening under socialism or another system that discards the profit motive because while we’re dreaming might as well dream big.
Just trying to ground things into our current reality. But yeah, I think in a world where there is an incentive to do good, it’s a no-brainer that we could do stuff like this in a lab and in a much more efficient way than agriculture or raising livestock/etc. for protein sources.