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@Basman Maybe for now. Everything I have seen shows prices of lab meat becoming comparable in the next decade. Ignore all the subsidies given to the meat industry and the actual production costs are probably pretty close right now. With the climate issue getting worse and worse something has to be done soon. I wouldn’t see it as unreasonable to imagine that some of those subsidies could eventually be transferred to lab meat production. Also, with a cow you are limited to what ever minimum costs are necessary to feed that cow and care for it, which we are probably already at. I think in a lab there is much more room for minimizing costs and optimizing the process.

@Something Funny I agree that the vast majority of people already value animal life over plant life instinctively. I always use the example that if faced with saving an animal or houseplant from a burning building, there would be no question for most people (unless it was an insect or something like that). Those types of situations are easy though because they don’t involve having to give up anything. People will readily agree that suffering is bad and should be minimized. When the prospects of pleasure, comfort and convenience come in, all of a sudden animal suffering and abuse is more ‘complicated’. That’s when you start to see all sorts of excuses and mental gymnastics like plants could feel pain or crop deaths. So yes people recognize animal suffering as bad when they do not benefit from it but pleasure and self-interest are often much more powerful drivers of choice. It’s hard to overstate how much pleasure some people get from a cheeseburger lol

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