I think most cuts should be something that we could replicate without significant price difference.
Sorry, I was a little fuzzy in my wording. My claim is (a) meat eaters have preferences + variety seeking even at the level of differences between cuts, (b) meat replacements will likely get very close to animal meat but not as close as some of these differences, and so (c) humans without a moral objection to eating animals will still eat some animal meat for variety.
For example, people still eat rutabaga, even though for any given rutabaga use other options (usually potato) are tastier and cheaper. People still eat red delicious and other kinds of apples that I think are basically obsolete. Iceberg lettuce is still widely eaten even though there are multiple options with simultaneously better flavor and nutrition. And I donāt think thereās much of a case for lima beans. There are some obsolete vegetables that weāve stopped eating, but they basically need to be significantly worse, either in the ānot worth eatingā sense or ātoo expensive for what you get senseā. In my model a food keeps some market as it still wins on some axis: cost, convenience, storage, flavor, texture, maybe tradition. And to disappear it needs to be beaten on every axis at once (or close enough that itās not worth the extra cost).
Also probably cultivated gives you more freedom to explore conventionally infeasible options.
I think thatās right, but I think that doesnāt get factory farming to zero: it gives people more options, but a drive for variety keeps all the options in play.
Sorry, I was a little fuzzy in my wording. My claim is (a) meat eaters have preferences + variety seeking even at the level of differences between cuts, (b) meat replacements will likely get very close to animal meat but not as close as some of these differences, and so (c) humans without a moral objection to eating animals will still eat some animal meat for variety.
For example, people still eat rutabaga, even though for any given rutabaga use other options (usually potato) are tastier and cheaper. People still eat red delicious and other kinds of apples that I think are basically obsolete. Iceberg lettuce is still widely eaten even though there are multiple options with simultaneously better flavor and nutrition. And I donāt think thereās much of a case for lima beans. There are some obsolete vegetables that weāve stopped eating, but they basically need to be significantly worse, either in the ānot worth eatingā sense or ātoo expensive for what you get senseā. In my model a food keeps some market as it still wins on some axis: cost, convenience, storage, flavor, texture, maybe tradition. And to disappear it needs to be beaten on every axis at once (or close enough that itās not worth the extra cost).
I think thatās right, but I think that doesnāt get factory farming to zero: it gives people more options, but a drive for variety keeps all the options in play.