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minus-squarebAZtARd@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·8 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-squareatx_aquarian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·8 months agoEating plants isn’t more expensive than eating meat, just eating plant-based attempts at mimicking meat.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-28 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.
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoIn the EU the answer would be that we’re subsidising cattle farmers for enormous amounts of money
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.
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.
In the EU the answer would be that we’re subsidising cattle farmers for enormous amounts of money