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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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