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i think even more likely: we will find a way to make our consumption of meat more sustainable

Or meat will become more expensive and people will move towards vegetable based diets.

I've mostly cut meat out of my diet and it's saving me probably $50 per week. I don't eat those expensive meat replacements like quorn though.

I didn't cut meat out specifically for financial reasons, or any particular reason really, I just stopped wanting to eat meat. The financial benefits are just a bonus.

Like all that "just around the corner" lab grown meat?

We seem to have seen a massive, measurable improvement in lab grown meat in the past 2-3 years. Going down from hundreds of thousands of dollars to single digit prices[0].

I don't know how the market is going to respond, but if we get a similar decrease in price it should get a large market share, having no noticeable negative attributes.

[0] https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/answering-how-a-sausage-gets-m... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/clean-meat-lab-gr...

I'm looking for the source for that number; it seems to come from Mark Post (head of a company in the space), and the closest I can find to an original quote is him saying last year that "it's possible" to grow at $80/kilo (i.e. single-digits per hamburger patty).

I would be very skeptical of that specific number while there are no market transactions going on.

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