I’d expect we’d first see a huge number of newspaper articles and internet websites trying to make health scares about “lab meat” and an ungodly about of memes about “real men eating real meat”, or “only real meat has real taste”, and then governments would ramp up subsidies to traditional farms because “cultural activities” and whatever. Oh, and a lot of jokes about the synthetic meat that many sci-fi dystopias have as an element.
Old, powerful lobbies don’t like the free market regulating itself, at all, and making harmful/obsolete stuff a cultural/identity/political tribes battle is the first strategy to hinder it.
I’d agree it eventually will become the solution, but I expect it to go slightly worse than the energetic transition.
I wonder about that.
I’d expect we’d first see a huge number of newspaper articles and internet websites trying to make health scares about “lab meat” and an ungodly about of memes about “real men eating real meat”, or “only real meat has real taste”, and then governments would ramp up subsidies to traditional farms because “cultural activities” and whatever. Oh, and a lot of jokes about the synthetic meat that many sci-fi dystopias have as an element.
Old, powerful lobbies don’t like the free market regulating itself, at all, and making harmful/obsolete stuff a cultural/identity/political tribes battle is the first strategy to hinder it.
I’d agree it eventually will become the solution, but I expect it to go slightly worse than the energetic transition.