When you're only producing 100 Kg of product per month, you have to price it pretty high!
on a more serious note. we are gettin pushback on people eating vegetarian. people will "not eat the bugs" and yet people also want to have unmitigated population control and increase our net energy usage.
something has to give...
I'm hoping that if lab grown meat takes off and becomes affordable for your average person, we might be able to give back some of the land that was de-forested for animal agriculture back to nature.
I'd love to see this too but I think its expecting too much of human nature. its 2024 and we have problems with people capturing bears for their bile. a substance that can be trivially produced in a lab for pennies. People as a whole dont' care about nature unless they are educated about it.
I mean, you'd be surprised how many people give me looks when I buy something and refuse the bag. "but its free."
I'm pro-lab-grown-meat though; if it's a tasty source of protein that reduces animal suffering and reduces the environmental impact of the meat industry, why not?