Because they dont treat their citizens like cattle and protect their local industries to avoid mass unemployment?
Ultimately protectionism has many negative externalities. At best you are amortizing the pain of your economy becoming uncompetitive, at worst you are permanently kneecapping your future competitiveness.
Yeah but it also means you are not feeding your people chickenfeed. And since people with money will always seek real food, fakes being for the workers, it will keep their farming industry healthy running.
> they dont treat their citizens like cattle
"We replaced our citizens with plant-based citizen alternatives, as they fart less".
We've replaced our plant-based citizen alternatives with stars. They twinkle and we like to look at them.
I sure hope they don't treat their citizens like they treat their cattle.
If they could read, they'd see the writing on the wall. So much for a free market, eh?
Yes, upheavals are bad, but it isn't like the idea of cultivated meat substitute is from three months ago.