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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by Sacho on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:38PM (#11950019)
$20 billion comes up under $100 per person per year in the US. Even giving it a generous x4 multiplier to account for the people subsidizing the industry without being consumers, at $400 per year, given the $3 and $7 prices by parent, you would need to eat under 100 pounds of meat for meat replacements to be viable. The average American allegedly consumes close to 200 pounds of meat[0] per year, so it ends up still being quote economical.

[0] http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-(per...

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by cname on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:29PM (#11951164)
You're making the incorrect assumption that vegetarians are replacing whatever meat they were eating with the more-expensive meat substitutes. As I noted in my comment above, there are plenty of meat substitutes and alternatives that are much cheaper than $7/lb.
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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by steveax on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @09:29PM (#11950976)
Sure if you're willing to exclude the externalities. What's the societal cost of antibiotic resistant escherichia coli?
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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by paulmd on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:09PM (#11951311)
The US is fixing that problem. Starting December 2016, a vet must examine and prescribe antibiotics for each animal; it will no longer be allowable to preemptively dose an entire herd just to enhance production.

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/DevelopmentApprovalProce...

Obviously it doesn't fix it for China though, which is where a lot of the drug-resistant bugs are coming from...

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by eru on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:06AM (#11951869)
That's encouraging. I hope that regulation will have teeth.
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