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The best way to fight back against this is to make lab grown meat so cheap that it is uneconomical to compete with it. Hit them in the bottom line and they'll be hurting.
That's how it would work in an actual free market - the thing Republicans pretend they support. But...
The point is precisely to prevent anyone being able to compete with lab-grown meat, no matter how cheap it might otherwise be.
Animal products are only cheap because they're heavily subsidized
Sounds great, hope they can do it... But it usually isn't that simple. I work in a different but simular field. Most of these fake meat companies, especially the quality ones, run very low or negative profits until they can massively scale up into international companies. We also lose money despite we are a good amount more expensive than cheap meat.
Lab grown has the same problem, and it isn't that it is soooo expensive, it's that meat is far too cheap. The real cost of meat is massive but is subsidized in most all processes. In addition to many other issues.