• bAZtARd@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      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.

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        7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

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

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        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.