[Digory]

I think it makes sense to standardize some word for the difference, especially since you’re talking about a commodity.

I imagine cheap meat is going to be qualitatively different than cheap Meetabix or whatever they will call it for some years. “It came from a cow” will impose some kind of minimum quality standard — and it’s not clear that standard will always be met in a non standardized market of bovine cell growers.

And the inputs are different. Should an increase in cow meat futures drive up grain prices or plastic clamshell prices?

[igetspam]

What's the quality standard you're protecting? Suffering? Slaughter? Loss of animal life?