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Just curious.. how can you be bullish about lab grown meat without knowing if any companies are involved in it?

It may be a 100b+ company, or it may be that producing lab grown meat costs 100x as much and there is no way to reduce that.

Have there been any initial figures? If so, why is no business capitalizing on it?

This is mostly hypothetical but if you have a response I'd like to hear it.

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> it may be that producing lab grown meat costs 100x as much and there is no way to reduce that.

This may or may not be true in the short term, but it seems unlikely to me in the long run. There are physical processes occurring inside the cow which don't require many resources. I can't see what would stop us from _eventually_ being able to mimic the key aspects of those processes and to do so somewhat efficiently. Of course, it may end up taking quite a long time to develop this capability.

He didn't say he didn't know of any companies involved.

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