Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di...
by maccard on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:31AM
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The article says this:
> To be fair, the traditional meat industry already benefits from enormous direct and indirect government subsidies
and then ignores the impact that that has. In the EU, CAP subsidies are absolutely enormous [0], and are only slightly smaller in the US [1]. - Between the two, that's $115 billion dollars per year on farming subsidies, which is roughly 40% of farm income in both the EU and the US.If it's acceptable to prop up the farm industry, why isn't it acceptable to prop up the manufactured meat industry?
> To be fair, the traditional meat industry already benefits from enormous direct and indirect government subsidies
and then ignores the impact that that has. In the EU, CAP subsidies are absolutely enormous [0], and are only slightly smaller in the US [1]. - Between the two, that's $115 billion dollars per year on farming subsidies, which is roughly 40% of farm income in both the EU and the US.If it's acceptable to prop up the farm industry, why isn't it acceptable to prop up the manufactured meat industry?
[0] https://theconversation.com/eu-subsidies-benefit-big-farms-w... [1] https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/record-high-ag-sub...