cyrnel

If they can tailor the taste and scale the process it'd do away with huge waste (land/materials/polution) in commercial animal industries. That's completely ignoring ethical questions.

I'm all for it, I just wonder about the economics. The stuff we get in hotdogs is largely scraps. Using "grown meat" will be a tough sell. It won't be cheap initially, so why will packagers change. It'll be a more expensive component, it'll costs more to sell, and it canibalizes their profitable lines?

Time for a Ben & Jerry Meat flavor? <img src="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/images/smilies/hmmm.gif"> ptui! Really, alternate marketers may be its only hope.

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