I’ve had the opportunity as an outsider to have a lot of involvement with pharm scalability research, and this video and the experts speaking on it match everything I’ve learned about their industry. Lab grown meat will take up far more space and resources than cell-grown meat, and will be far worse for the environment. Of real estimates, the numbers aren’t even close to pretend otherwise.
And (paraphrasing the words of an actual CTO of one of those lab meat companies), efficiency is doomed to go DOWN if you scale up in any way except building more and more SMALL expensive and inefficient bioreactors.
There’s a reason those processes never get cheap to manufacture in labs using the same processes to make life-saving medication. Lab meat doesn’t get the “life or death markup” a cancer drug would have, but it won’t be getting sold for below cost to get it down in the $10-20/lb range for low-end hamburger.
Unfortunately, that may never become feasible.
I’ve had the opportunity as an outsider to have a lot of involvement with pharm scalability research, and this video and the experts speaking on it match everything I’ve learned about their industry. Lab grown meat will take up far more space and resources than cell-grown meat, and will be far worse for the environment. Of real estimates, the numbers aren’t even close to pretend otherwise.
And (paraphrasing the words of an actual CTO of one of those lab meat companies), efficiency is doomed to go DOWN if you scale up in any way except building more and more SMALL expensive and inefficient bioreactors.
There’s a reason those processes never get cheap to manufacture in labs using the same processes to make life-saving medication. Lab meat doesn’t get the “life or death markup” a cancer drug would have, but it won’t be getting sold for below cost to get it down in the $10-20/lb range for low-end hamburger.