[pibechorro]

There are many factors. First is trust, I trust an organism even if pumped full of hormones more than a lab cell culture. Then there is the issue of dependency, raising livestock nad hunting is low tech with no supply chains breaking down. Quality is also a factor, i will believe it when I see it that lab grown meat is nothing more than glorified ground meat. There is a lot to the unique properties of meat (fibers, fat, etc) which will likely take a long while to master, this vs thousands of years of tradition meat preparation and husbandry.

I am not for any top down laws banning things, but the idea that lab grown is anywhere an equal swap for real meat is silly. Italy has a genuine concern, they value food, and that comes down to the quality of ingredients.

[its-summertime]

I can hardly trust my own body, let alone the body of a different animal. I doubt that we'll see much of mad cow disease in lab meat on shelves.

wrt supply chains:

> Specifically, the livestock sector and its related industries are among the most impacted sectors. This is mainly ascribed to the limitations of animal movement and the decrease of production inputs' availability.

> The availability of animals', feed ingredients, either through foraging or concentrate ingredients, was an additional challenge confronting the sustainability of the livestock supply chain. Data presented in our overview illustrated that one of the livestock supply chain's major disruptors was the inability of farmers to access animal feed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593325/

And unless I'm rich enough to eat choice cuts regularly, the marbling et al is not going to be amazing regardless, so...

[timeon]

> I am not for any top down laws banning things, but

But that is what is this topic about. So if something is not "equal swap" then we can consider ban?