Comment by willsmith72
13 hours ago
there's nothing holy about eating real animals (unless you're religious)
i'm no vegan, but if identical lab-grown alternatives are available at near same cost without the hormones, antibiotics, emissions, I'll take it
Identical is the point here.
The test of 'identical' to me is going to be mass production with economies of scale. I surely don't have the equipment to test whether it's identical, nor would I trust the marketing.
What does that have to do with the price? If it's mass produced, widely available, thoroughly tested, and the same price as regular meat, why wouldn't you prefer it?
Everything in history that was mass produced was priced more than an order of magnitude lower than the 'original'.
I don't see artificial meat being the first exception to this. I'd see 'same price as meat' being an indication of something going wrong here.
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