I think There is an important difference between plant based products and cultured meat for this conversation
A society that stops eating meat will be able to ban meat
A society that replaces animal meat with cultured meat would not be able to ban animal meat, because the animal meat and cultured meat are the same thing so There would be no way for law enforcement to recognize contraband, I can see large numbers of backyard slaughterhouses , hunting/fishing and small scale animal meat production surviving indefinitely in the second situation.
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 There is an important difference between plant based products and cultured meat for this conversation
A society that stops eating meat will be able to ban meat
A society that replaces animal meat with cultured meat would not be able to ban animal meat, because the animal meat and cultured meat are the same thing so There would be no way for law enforcement to recognize contraband, I can see large numbers of backyard slaughterhouses , hunting/fishing and small scale animal meat production surviving indefinitely in the second situation.
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.