[swatcoder]

Reducing overall meat consumption would be great in a lot of ways, but lab-grown meats are a luxury product for the next few decades and will basically fall off the map if there's any kind of extreme or prolonged global crisis, which will happen sooner or later.

I spent years being vegan and vegetarian and still eat many meals that way, but the idea of purging ranching and meat consumption from the world is technologist hubris and the start to someone's dystopian novel. I mean, maybe it'll happen responsibly some day, but if you're grounded in reality and history, it's a 500 year transition, not a 5 year one.

[samus]

Then there's no reason to ban it. If anything, real meat might surprisingly soon be the expensive luxury food. We humans are pretty good at figuring out ways to scale up complex production processes and drive costs down.

[xeonmc]

Reminds me of "The Food of the Gods" by Arthur C. Clarke:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38303638