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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•5 months agoThis. How can a vegan meat alternative cost more than real meat. I’d buy it immediately but as a consumer I don’t want to be screwed over.
minus-square@atx_aquarianlinkEnglish16•5 months agoEating plants isn’t more expensive than eating meat, just eating plant-based attempts at mimicking meat.
minus-square@SMillerNLlinkEnglish4•5 months agoIn the EU the answer would be that we’re subsidising cattle farmers for enormous amounts of money
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-25 months agoSome of it is probably limited scale. I think a more-interesting metric than price in store is what their marginal cost of production is relative to the marginal cost of production of real meat. That’ll cut out fixed costs like R&D that’ll be more-prominent at limited scale.
This. How can a vegan meat alternative cost more than real meat. I’d buy it immediately but as a consumer I don’t want to be screwed over.
Eating plants isn’t more expensive than eating meat, just eating plant-based attempts at mimicking meat.
In the EU the answer would be that we’re subsidising cattle farmers for enormous amounts of money
Some of it is probably limited scale.
I think a more-interesting metric than price in store is what their marginal cost of production is relative to the marginal cost of production of real meat. That’ll cut out fixed costs like R&D that’ll be more-prominent at limited scale.