Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.
thecounter.org
Headlines have overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and cost. Now, new research suggests the industry may be on a crash course with reality.

lab grown meat is a vaguely EA/rationalist/self IDed neolib meme. in theory it will save the environment (ok) and prevent suffering (yay) in a way that concentrates capital (double yay) and involves a lot of tech magic (triple yay).

hot luigi is a big fan apparently. seeing this discussed reminded me of this excellent article which shreds the concept of mass produced lab grown meat. I haven’t really seen this circulate much over the years, but it is really a masterwork of grift dissection. please enjoy

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20241208141305/https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/

  • Roamin' Chemicals@mastodon.social
    7·
    2 months ago

    @sc_griffith Sobering. Making meat from scratch sure sounds like a hard problem. But what if, hear me out, we acquire whatever meat we can find that can’t afford to sue us, deconstitute it into our bio reactors, and then sell the resultant slurry on a prescription basis?

    • sc_griffith@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      this could result in the funniest possible outcome which is the revolutionary PeopleMeat turning out to be just scrap animal meat b/c PeopleMeat isn’t actually economically viable