Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat

Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by ghayes on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:56PM (#28622465)

I'm a little confused; why is rural Texas less able to support human life than Manhattan? Other than the infrastructure that was built by humans, I assume the primary advantage of Manhattan is protection from human invasion and easily accessible water?

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by missedthecue on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:56PM (#28623103)

If a cattle farm isn't built in Manhattan, a thousand other people will be lining up to turn it into office, residential, or retail space.

If a cattle farm isn't built in Erath County Texas, that land is going to sit there doing nothing. It has no other productive use case.

The point of this is that pointing out how much land beef production uses isn't as insightful as it may at first seem, because that land isn't being taken from another economic activity.

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by geoduck14 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:16PM (#28624156)

There are, in fact, dairy farms in New York state.

Also, the DFW area is the 4th largest region in the country - proving that you CAN put people and cows on the same land

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by tuatoru on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:01PM (#28624816)

> Erath County Texas

That looks like prime wind turbine power generation country.

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by missedthecue on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:06PM (#28624844)

True, but a wind turbine can sit on a cattle pasture without causing issues, so that's immaterial to the arguments here considered.

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