This is a super important question, I’d love this to be addressed since it also seems to me this is very pessimistic and extremely important. This is not only a huge part of GFI’s or ProVeg Incubator’s work that probably absorbs a lot of money but it also was this kind of “hope” for animal activists like myself. Would it be reasonable to shift more resources towards alt proteins?
Reposting this comment here as you said you were interested but won’t get a notification from my other comment:
Coming back to this as I just asked Bruce Friedrich (Director of GFI) a question about this in a presentation he was giving:
He said that GFI doesn’t agree with this report and thinks it is less credible than the techno-economic analysis supported by GFI because:
This report didn’t work with any companies under NDA whereas GFI’s own analysis had 11 (I believe)
This report also didn’t work with any national scientific agencies where GFI worked with that of Singapore.
Generally he (and the scientists at GFI) seem much more optimistic that cultivated meat can reach price parity with the cheapest animal products and he said if they didn’t think they would, they would focus less on cultivated meat. So that’s a slightly more positive update in the cultivated direction for me and thought it might be interesting for people who are also concerned about this.
Thanks Ula, I hadn’t read that and it has been super insightful. Seems like I’m back to being much more pessimistic about the scale up of cultivated meat now…
This is a super important question, I’d love this to be addressed since it also seems to me this is very pessimistic and extremely important. This is not only a huge part of GFI’s or ProVeg Incubator’s work that probably absorbs a lot of money but it also was this kind of “hope” for animal activists like myself. Would it be reasonable to shift more resources towards alt proteins?
Reposting this comment here as you said you were interested but won’t get a notification from my other comment:
Coming back to this as I just asked Bruce Friedrich (Director of GFI) a question about this in a presentation he was giving:
He said that GFI doesn’t agree with this report and thinks it is less credible than the techno-economic analysis supported by GFI because:
This report didn’t work with any companies under NDA whereas GFI’s own analysis had 11 (I believe)
This report also didn’t work with any national scientific agencies where GFI worked with that of Singapore.
Generally he (and the scientists at GFI) seem much more optimistic that cultivated meat can reach price parity with the cheapest animal products and he said if they didn’t think they would, they would focus less on cultivated meat. So that’s a slightly more positive update in the cultivated direction for me and thought it might be interesting for people who are also concerned about this.
Have you read this article James: https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ I think it’s really good at comparing Open Philanthropy report with GFI report. I highly recommend reading it.
Thanks Ula, I hadn’t read that and it has been super insightful. Seems like I’m back to being much more pessimistic about the scale up of cultivated meat now…