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Plant-based meat alternatives have also become much tastier, cheaper and available, especially over the last decade. Cultivated meat will be great for steaks and stuff, but for many things we already have replacements that are quite good.
Some store brand meat alternatives have already reached price parity with factory farmed meat here in Germany, and this will continue as the industry scales up.
Yeah, those options are available. And people largely don’t want them.
I have family members that are meat eaters, but they are often surprised how good some alternatives are nowadays when I give them new stuff to try. It's true that some aren't good, though. It really depends on the product. Most people haven't tried the good ones in my experience, or don't have them available in their region yet.
The official statistics here in Germany are that plant-based sales increased by about 15% year-on-year, and more than doubled over the last 5 years alone. It's certainly catching on here.
While ‘convert everyone to vegetarians’ may be a desirable resolution for you, it’s not realistic. And certainly not achievable in the timeframe needed to reduce climate change impacts.
Not saying those efforts can’t be done in parallel, but subsidizing vat grown meat is necessary as well.
Imo it's just really easy to switch stuff like burgers, nuggets, chicken wings, chicken breast etc. over to a (good) plant-based equivalent, I don't feel like I've lost anything by doing that. It would already remove a lot of environmental destruction and animal suffering without people going fully vegetarian or vegan.
Yes, I agree with that and I'll be happy when it gets affordable.
Maybe “easy” for an individual to switch. Quite another thing to shift an entire culture and society to vegetarianism. And completely unrealistic for the short term.