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Originally Posted by Coach
Totally agree. As noted, I'm all for it.
But it won't be very efficient for them to be making one "cut" at a time. It will have to be done, as you noted, as "giant vat meat" in order to make it profitable, which is of course the endgame with all human processes. Maybe they will be able to make large logs of certain "cuts" and slice them into multiple rib-eyes or what have you, I doubt it though.
But even if we can just replace all fast food burgers with lab-grown ground, it would be a triumph.
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I’m not sure replacing all ground beef works. Cows are a very low waste product. Only 60% ends up as meat. So it will be interesting what kind of market distortions get created when you cut into ground beef demand. In theory the price of ground beef will drop below the price of lab meat and the cost of all the other parts of the cow rise to offset until the demand drops for the more premium cow parts due to price.
So in order for the lab meets to really cut into the beef market they likely need to be producing premium cuts