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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] atx_aquarian 16 points 7 months ago

Eating plants isn't more expensive than eating meat, just eating plant-based attempts at mimicking meat.

[–] SMillerNL 4 points 7 months ago

In the EU the answer would be that we’re subsidising cattle farmers for enormous amounts of money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.