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I do see how dumb that is, it doesn't seem like you do.What does being a libertarian have to do with anything? I've always been a small government conservative. I argue against government intervening in people's private decisions all of the time.
We're talking about food which is why your deflection to "human meat" didn't make sense. No one eats human meat so lab grown human meat was irrelevant but you made that your focal point anyway.
Here's a very simple argument for lab grown meat: If company can produce safe lab grown meat, they should be allowed to market it as an alternative to cattle and chicken. If there's a market for it, good for them. If there's no market for it, sux for them. It's no different than any other food product produced in a lab.
For example -- my dad was a research chemist on some Pringles flavors. Lab created flavoring. Vitamins are lab created. The list of food products that have their origin in a lab is pretty extensive. So long as they are safe, people are allowed to make their own choice on whether or not to buy it.
And please stop the "you're not a libertarian" schtick. It's irrelevant. Rather than debating the validity of the subject matter, you're pretending that if you accuse people of the right or wrong political affiliation, it alleviates you from making a coherent argument. (which is why you punted the "make an argument" point back to me instead of putting forward an argument in support of the ban yourself).
Let me show you why it's a deflection: Aren't you a conservative? Doesn't that mean you oppose government overreach? When did you become an economic socialist, using government to control the means of production. As a conservative, you must oppose government intervention in the markets.
See how dumb that is?
Correct, I'm conservative, neither you nor I are libertarians, nor is MicroBrew, so let's can it with the fake libertarian arguments that you suddenly picked out for select projects. They're still free to grow fake meat for surgical procedures on animals too, they just can't serve it as food.
If you'd like to make a consistent libertarian argument, then make that argument consistently, but lab meat wouldn't crack the top 50 complaints for that. If we accept the reality of government picking winners and losers, particularly with this industry that doesn't even really exist currently for commercial consumption, then we're back to you having to make an argument for why this is different, which you haven't and apparently can't.
If your libertarian argument was sincere, your squabble should be with @MicroBrew , who doesn't want all lab meat available, but of course it's not, and you're just taking whatever you think is the democrat position with no scruples or consistency.