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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.worldTED Talk Rule
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    2 months ago

    When I graduated with my master’s in education, the boneheaded school administrators brought in a entrepreneur/CEO type to give the commencement address at the College of Education’s graduation ceremony. He gave an inspiring speech about how if you work hard and be entrepreneurial, you can achieve whatever level of wealth and success you desire. He gave this speech to a crowd that was primarily current and future public school teachers.





  • Yeah, this is one of those areas that capitalism really screws us over.

    The natural and most obvious use for these lab-grown and imitation meats are for filler meats. Think a ground beef replacement. Something that would be added to a casserole, a burrito, or any other dish where meat is present, but not the primary focus of a dish.

    But it costs money to develop lab-grown meats. And to pay that investment back, for-profit companies have to target the luxury market first. It’s like how Tesla started with building an expensive sports car. Then they used the profits from that to build a cheaper next generation car, and so on. That’s what the lab grown meat companies have had to do. The ideal market for products like these would be things like chicken nuggets or the meat inside hot pockets. But those are also the cheapest form of meat sold, and they need to target the upper end of the market to have any hope of profitability.