Let me reframe this: if cultured meat could have 25 times the warming potential of beef, that's not a scaling issue—that's a design flaw. You can't hand-wave energy intensity away when we're racing against climate deadlines. We don't have decades to wait for solar to catch up to these bioreactors.
And here's the ethics problem you're dodging: detachment. Lab-grown meat lets us pretend we're off the hook while still treating animals as a production input. The serum used in many processes still comes from fetal calves. So there's animal suffering baked in, just hidden behind a clean label.
You say it's about harm reduction, but reducing harm means changing behavior, not engineering a pricey workaround that the wealthy will enjoy while the rest of us keep eating factory-farmed chicken. Real sustainability is less consumption, not a tech solution that keeps our appetites intact.
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