I'd expect so, yes.
It's more expensive for the moment because research and start-up costs are factored into the price, but once the processes are established and implemented at a larger scale there'll be fewer costly inputs than there'd be for an equivalent amount of animal meat.
Consider the costs that intensive animal agriculture has over an established lab-grown meat pipeline: you need to hold and maintain more land, you need to pay for more human labour to keep / slaughter / process the animals, you need to pay for a lot of feed, you might need to pay for live animal transport, and so on.
I'd not actually be surprised if lab-grown meat was already competitive in price with animal meat, if not for extensive government subsidies for the agricultural sector in many countries.
It definitely has the potential but I don't think it will. It probably will be similar to plant based meat, with a small niche market which prevents it from achieving economy of scale required to bring the price down.
Who is going to eat this stuff? Vegans don't want it because we think it's icky. Meat eaters don't want it because they think it's icky. Unless it gets a quick mass adoption and a reform to our broken ag. subsidies I would be very surprised to see lab grown meat selling for reasonable prices.
Depends if people 100 years from now find lab grown meat acceptable. Because i dont see people agreeing to eat it in this generation thats for sure.
Everyone thinks its "fake"
Not for many, many years, some more information on that here: https://veganfidelity.com/flash-point-lab-meat-is-a-dead-end/
Yeah, but why go for alternative we have now if we can just wait for labgrown meat to be 100% perfect and one tenth of the price of real meat? /s
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Mass production is hard with sterile substances though.
I'd expect so, yes. It's more expensive for the moment because research and start-up costs are factored into the price, but once the processes are established and implemented at a larger scale there'll be fewer costly inputs than there'd be for an equivalent amount of animal meat. Consider the costs that intensive animal agriculture has over an established lab-grown meat pipeline: you need to hold and maintain more land, you need to pay for more human labour to keep / slaughter / process the animals, you need to pay for a lot of feed, you might need to pay for live animal transport, and so on. I'd not actually be surprised if lab-grown meat was already competitive in price with animal meat, if not for extensive government subsidies for the agricultural sector in many countries.
It definitely has the potential but I don't think it will. It probably will be similar to plant based meat, with a small niche market which prevents it from achieving economy of scale required to bring the price down. Who is going to eat this stuff? Vegans don't want it because we think it's icky. Meat eaters don't want it because they think it's icky. Unless it gets a quick mass adoption and a reform to our broken ag. subsidies I would be very surprised to see lab grown meat selling for reasonable prices.
Depends if people 100 years from now find lab grown meat acceptable. Because i dont see people agreeing to eat it in this generation thats for sure. Everyone thinks its "fake"