sandcrawler56 OP t1_j1yet26 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:51 AM

Reply to comment by vwlukefairhaven in What would food look like if we could scale up lab grown meat? by sandcrawler56

Cannibalism. Now that's something I haven't considered before... Maybe 2030 will be the year then.

Yes theroatically everything could be grown. Ears, heart, liver. The issue is that if these things become a niche product, it flips the economics on its head. Right now people use these things because they are readily avaliable waste products that are cheap. If they are niche products, they will most certainly become expensive. I can see how a chicken heart could cost more per gram than a high end steak. If this was the case, ain't no one going to be eating chicken hearts except at super fancy restaurants, which would be a pity.

vwlukefairhaven t1_j207ewv wrote on December 28, 2022 at 6:35 PM

This is how ox tails are now as expensive as Ribeye cuts. People figured out how delicious you can cook them and now its not the same price as ground beef.