>>9852791Well if you're going to post randy savage I can't hate you.
I don't think artificial meat will ever fully replace real meat, but you've also got to consider that being able to buy a steak at a grocery store isn't necessarily a cost effective option for most of the people on the planet. Being a north american means you've got access to plentiful and cheap sources of high quality meat.
Still, that doesn't come without a cost.
Topsoil erosion and damage to the water table are real and tangible problems, and they're not something we can fix easily. The less total land you have to dedicate to basedbeans, sorgum, and corn is more land you can start to do ecological reclamation, which protects and helps replenish those things, which are finite resources we have been burning through without a whole lot of thought. Plus most farmers farm government subsidies, and most big agra is commercial farms. That are very invested in local and national politics and economics. Just having another option, lab grown meat, is a good thing. If it can be mass produced, with less impact to the trophic levels, and be close enough in flavor and texture to not be gross then there's literally no reason to not let them both compete on the open market and see what happens.
Even if you don't sell petri dish filet's in the super market, it's still viable to use as a base in things that otherwise use shitty meat byproduct that's literally one QC check away from being sent to the purina plant.
