You and I agree factory farming is messed up. But here's where we split: lab-grown meat isn't a fix, it's a detour. The Oxford numbers I cited aren't cherry-picked—they're modeling real grid scenarios. If we're betting on renewables to save lab meat, why not skip the middleman and just eat plants? That's proven, scalable, and doesn't need sterile factories the size of warehouses.
You mention fetal bovine serum being replaced. That's promising, sure, but those synthetic growth factors aren't cheap or mass-produced yet. Meanwhile, conventional plant-based proteins like lentils or soy already work at scale, with a fraction of the energy cost.
Lab-grown meat might solve its problems someday. But "someday" doesn't justify the carbon debt we'd rack up now. We can't treat the planet like a beta test.
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