Great post, clear and insightful! I really appreciate how you’ve presented this perspective on the cultivated meat debate.
Your point about the substitution effect and that this may not replace conventional meat but instead compete with other alternative proteins is striking and not something I had considered before. I had assumed that meat-eaters would be more likely to embrace cultivated meat, but your argument that hybrid products might not attract them, given the reception to things like the Beyond or Impossible Burgers, is compelling.
I love that you’re asking such critical questions and admire how you’ve kept the post concise while still offering constructive recommendations for the EA movement.
My hope is that cultivated meat will enable us to replace animal products for companion animals, but I realise looking at your information on scale and cost I’m being pretty optimistic on that. Do you feel that will be a viable option at some point in the future?
Also, I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t know the reference to Omelas so thank you for introducing me to that story.
Thanks again for such a thought-provoking and well-balanced post!
Regarding pets, I know that the company Meatly has marketed a product with cultivated cells in the United Kingdom. But I’m not sure how widely available it is. My opinion is that products that include small quantities of cells will exist, but will remain in the premium pet food segment, similar to how insect-based products are positioned today.
Great post, clear and insightful! I really appreciate how you’ve presented this perspective on the cultivated meat debate.
Your point about the substitution effect and that this may not replace conventional meat but instead compete with other alternative proteins is striking and not something I had considered before. I had assumed that meat-eaters would be more likely to embrace cultivated meat, but your argument that hybrid products might not attract them, given the reception to things like the Beyond or Impossible Burgers, is compelling.
I love that you’re asking such critical questions and admire how you’ve kept the post concise while still offering constructive recommendations for the EA movement.
My hope is that cultivated meat will enable us to replace animal products for companion animals, but I realise looking at your information on scale and cost I’m being pretty optimistic on that. Do you feel that will be a viable option at some point in the future?
Also, I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t know the reference to Omelas so thank you for introducing me to that story.
Thanks again for such a thought-provoking and well-balanced post!
Thank you for your kind comment!
Regarding pets, I know that the company Meatly has marketed a product with cultivated cells in the United Kingdom. But I’m not sure how widely available it is. My opinion is that products that include small quantities of cells will exist, but will remain in the premium pet food segment, similar to how insect-based products are positioned today.