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It's not a yes on banning lab grown human meat. We lab grow all sorts of human components already. Meat is just muscle and we already grow that in a lab. So, no, I don't oppose lab grown human muscles because it would literally set back science and medicine by decades.So is that a yes to opposing a ban on lab grown human meat? There's no such thing as "common ways to obtain" human meat.
Sure, if we lived in a purely capitalist society, but we don't, and we have very heavy central planning. Nearly every major corporation and industry receives subsidies, preferential taxation and loopholes, heavy regulation often written by lobbyists for those industries, so if we're going to have such hands on planning already, fishing and farming seems like a pretty good choice to protect.
Cultured meat certainly isn't a self-funded endeavor, it's had $2.8 billion in investment from governments and venture capital.
State of the Industry Report: Cultivated meat and seafood | GFI
This report details the commercial landscape, investments, regulatory developments, and scientific progress in the cultivated meat and seafood industry.gfi.org
Unprecedented government support for cultivated meat
- In Europe, the Netherlands announced $65 million in funding for cultivated meat and precision fermentation, the world’s largest-ever public investment in the cellular agriculture field.
- Israel, China, and South Korea all increased policy support for cultivated meat development.
- The U.S. Congress directed nearly $6 million in research funds to alternative protein R&D. California approved the first-ever state investment in cultivated meat research, directing $5 million to R&D across three labs, two of which focus on cultivated meat.
- Israel launched the largest government-backed cultivated meat consortium to date, involving the country’s top food producers and academic labs.
I have no idea what they are planning on doing at some unspecific point way in the future, but the cultivated meat isn't even available for consumers currently, so you can pocket that question and come back to it when they start pumping out fake meat that it's significantly cheaper to buy that real meat. If voters demand it, I'm sure they'd be willing to, or they can give it to bums or something.
Right now the cost isn't anywhere close.
In 2013, the first clean burger cost $325,000. While the price has decreased dramatically since then, current estimates range from $363 to $2,400 per pound, making it much more expensive than regular meat. (A pound of conventionally produced lean ground beef costs less than $6. Organically raised beef typically costs about a dollar more.)
I agree we're not in a purely capitalist society. But you haven't laid out an argument against lab grown meat except from an economic protectionist perspective. Protecting an industry from competition. And not even international competition, domestic competition. So, a capitalism based response makes sense here.
The protectionism argument is weak. If you have a stronger one, you should present it.