Ever so rough fermi: Beyond’s revenue was around $100 million—they sell their products at $1 and save an animal for every 100 products sold, then they save 1 million animals a year. Increasing their revenue by 1% through a grant or unpaid internship would save 10k animals.
But if the market is efficient, the counterfactual impact of for-profit clean meat companies is converging towards zero.
More basic clean meat R&D might be more undersupplied by the market.
Interesting question.
Ever so rough fermi: Beyond’s revenue was around $100 million—they sell their products at $1 and save an animal for every 100 products sold, then they save 1 million animals a year. Increasing their revenue by 1% through a grant or unpaid internship would save 10k animals.
But if the market is efficient, the counterfactual impact of for-profit clean meat companies is converging towards zero.
More basic clean meat R&D might be more undersupplied by the market.