Will adoption of meatless meat increase in the next 8 years? Probably.
Will there be a dairy and cattle "collapse" in the next 8 years? Highly unlikely. Many people are not interested in lab grown meat. They want their traditional sources.
>The key to understanding the disruption of the cow is that PF only needs to disrupt 3.3% of the milk bottle (the key functional proteins) to bring about the collapse of the entire cow milk industry.
That ain't right at all. Precision fermentation or other synthetic dairy needs to produce a product that the consumer prefers the same way, or darn near close to, the way he prefers milk, butter, cheese, cream, and so forth. That's a hundred percent.
Agreed, I like their predictions but I would guess 20 or 30 years for most of them, not 8.
They think milk will be easier than meat, but I'm skeptical. Milk is a commodity, the price farmers got over the last decade has ranged from about $14-21 per hundredweight. At $20 per hundredweight that's $1.70 per gallon. In my mind that's pretty inexpensive competition.
They also seem to be pushing the idea that these synthetic proteins are going to be much healthier. I'll gladly wait for more data on that.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 20.4 ms ] threadWill adoption of meatless meat increase in the next 8 years? Probably.
Will there be a dairy and cattle "collapse" in the next 8 years? Highly unlikely. Many people are not interested in lab grown meat. They want their traditional sources.
>The key to understanding the disruption of the cow is that PF only needs to disrupt 3.3% of the milk bottle (the key functional proteins) to bring about the collapse of the entire cow milk industry.
That ain't right at all. Precision fermentation or other synthetic dairy needs to produce a product that the consumer prefers the same way, or darn near close to, the way he prefers milk, butter, cheese, cream, and so forth. That's a hundred percent.
They think milk will be easier than meat, but I'm skeptical. Milk is a commodity, the price farmers got over the last decade has ranged from about $14-21 per hundredweight. At $20 per hundredweight that's $1.70 per gallon. In my mind that's pretty inexpensive competition.
They also seem to be pushing the idea that these synthetic proteins are going to be much healthier. I'll gladly wait for more data on that.