the dead end grift that is lab grown meat
the dead end grift that is lab grown meat
Headlines have overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and cost. Now, new research suggests the industry may be on a crash course with reality.
lab grown meat is a vaguely EA/rationalist/self IDed neolib meme. in theory it will save the environment (ok) and prevent suffering (yay) in a way that concentrates capital (double yay) and involves a lot of tech magic (triple yay).
hot luigi is a big fan apparently. seeing this discussed reminded me of this excellent article which shreds the concept of mass produced lab grown meat. I haven't really seen this circulate much over the years, but it is really a masterwork of grift dissection. please enjoy
archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20241208141305/https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/
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In many people's minds lab-grown meat is a fact, and a reason to condemn everybody who isn't eating it. It has become a belief system - like thinking Tesla invented all of modern technology. If the companies disappear because investors got tired of flushing money down them, the default reason will be a conspiracy engineered by evil meat lords.
like thinking Tesla invented all of modern technology
You mean the Croatian scientist or the company founded by Eberhard and Tarpenning?
Nah my neighbour, Steve Tesla. He’s real smart. Found a way to get free cable
You can probably work that out - one of them is much more often credited with inventing all of modern technology.
In my social bubble, neither really is. Honestly. Dead serious.