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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by moralestapia on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:09PM (#28622635)
>Basically at scale is a engineered bioreactor cheaper than the natural blood & bones bioreactor?

No, it's not. That's what the whole article is about. It won't be cost effective, not even at that scale. Plus, it gives some other physical/pragmatic reasons on why it may not be even possible to do it (disregarding costs).

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by KingMachiavelli on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:50PM (#28623060)
It was a question. My main disagreement is not the outcome but rather that there was never a real cost breakdown of lab vs natural. Personally I found the article's structure makes it a bit hard to follow and even more difficult to formulate a good response.

However the reports it mentions are pretty good:

GFI (Good Food Institute which represents these lab meat companies) https://gfi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cultured-meat-LCA...

Ezra Klein/Vox/Huw Hughes: https://www.scribd.com/document/526220188/Cultivated-Meat-re...

Open Philanthropy/David Humbird: https://engrxiv.org/795su

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