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[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly, I just want lab-grown meat for pet food.

I am aware both that evidence suggests that dogs can survive on plant-based diets and that there exists plant-based foods for cats which are supplemented with microbially sourced taurine and other nutrients that are essential to cats but which are not naturally found in plants. However, there is less data than I'd like confirming that dogs can live and thrive their whole lives on a plant-based diet than I'd like + it seems like the difficulty curve is higher for nutritionally planning and maintaining a plant-based diet for a dog than a human, and cats frequently turn their nose up at nutritionally complete but often unpalatable vegan cat foods and are known to just refuse to eat until they starve if they don't like their food. Lab-grown meat would offer an ethical alternative with much fewer concerns for those with companion cats and dogs.

Also, some people have like twenty allergies, health conditions and digestive issues that make a sustained vegan diet at best very difficult. Lab-grown meat would be good for them, too.

In general, though, I do question whether our culture is ever going to get to a point where lab-grown meat gains a viable market share, even though it would be better for both animals and the planet.