RE: Farm animals
March 16, 2018 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2018 at 2:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I do.
If we add lab grown meat to the list of methodologies, and propose that it will be cheaper than some other item in the list..we have to quantify the costs against each other. Is the cost of the nutrient solution (and it's application) cheaper than pasture or a feedlot? Is the cost of the lab cheaper than the cost of a barbed wire fence and the property contained? Can you staff it at a lower price point than field hands?
I don't want to rule it out forever...I don't know what the cost of all of the conventional stuff will be years and years (and centuries) from now......but, consider me extremely skeptical that anything done in a cutting edge lab with competent techs is going to outperform dust farming field hands and feedlots on the price point anytime soon. We've driven that price real low..it's a pretty steep cliff for lab grown to have to climb.
If we add lab grown meat to the list of methodologies, and propose that it will be cheaper than some other item in the list..we have to quantify the costs against each other. Is the cost of the nutrient solution (and it's application) cheaper than pasture or a feedlot? Is the cost of the lab cheaper than the cost of a barbed wire fence and the property contained? Can you staff it at a lower price point than field hands?
I don't want to rule it out forever...I don't know what the cost of all of the conventional stuff will be years and years (and centuries) from now......but, consider me extremely skeptical that anything done in a cutting edge lab with competent techs is going to outperform dust farming field hands and feedlots on the price point anytime soon. We've driven that price real low..it's a pretty steep cliff for lab grown to have to climb.
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