I think I disagree fwiw. Making cultured meat is not like making a synthetic diamond. I think cultured meat is not and likely will never be chemically indistinguishable from conventional meat without substantial optimization pressures in that direction. And I do not expect people to be aiming extremely hard at making cultured meat chemically indistinguishable from conventional meat (as opposed to just having similar enough taste/texture/nutritional profile at an appropriate price point).
In addition (and maybe more importantly) I expect there to be a bunch of ways to do law enforcement/surveillance to enforce bans at the production stage, rather than at the consumption stage. We might get some empirical tests of this crux soon, particularly when through seeing whether synthetic ivory will make it harder to crack down on elephant poaching.
I think I disagree fwiw. Making cultured meat is not like making a synthetic diamond. I think cultured meat is not and likely will never be chemically indistinguishable from conventional meat without substantial optimization pressures in that direction. And I do not expect people to be aiming extremely hard at making cultured meat chemically indistinguishable from conventional meat (as opposed to just having similar enough taste/texture/nutritional profile at an appropriate price point).
In addition (and maybe more importantly) I expect there to be a bunch of ways to do law enforcement/surveillance to enforce bans at the production stage, rather than at the consumption stage. We might get some empirical tests of this crux soon, particularly when through seeing whether synthetic ivory will make it harder to crack down on elephant poaching.