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I genuinely wish lab grown meat was something that we had large scale at low cost access to.
This chart shows our nutritional needs, but people buy and sell based on an emotional need. Meat is an emotional need. Lab grown could collapse that red bar without people feeling like they lost anything, but alas, it's just wishful thinking. It's too far away of a technology.
Is it actually more land/energy efficient than livestock? I've never seen any numbers on it, I've only heard people talk about the ethical side of things.
Once at scale, it's hard to imagine it not being much more efficient. You only are feeding a much smaller group of cells compared to an entire being
Besides just culture meat, there's also stuff like precision fermentation out there that's super interesting (and already is being used commercially). With it you can create biologically identical proteins. You can buy things like ice creams with non-animal whey in a number of stores