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People have little loyalty to meat per se. If you made something that was cheaper and tasted better, most carnivores would switch. Once that shift started, social pressure against eating meat would grow rapidly. It would seem, and in fact would be, perverse.
Predictions about the future often turn out to be false, but I'm going to risk predicting a rapid switch away from meat at some point. It's rocket-science hard, but no harder, and there is a huge amount of money to be made. Ergo it will happen.
I'll warn you in advance, though, that the switch will probably increase rather than decrease economic inequality. The replacements for meat will be created by startups, which means more Bezoses, and will simultaneously put lots of small farmers out of business.
Describing the process of causing a creature to exist for a period of time, rather than it never existing at all, as 'murder', seems grossly inaccurate.
There are plenty of foodstuffs that people can eat besides meat yet they complement, not substitute it, not entirely. You can eat fish some days, and meat in others. Nothing precludes this new invention from coexisting alongside meat.
Yes!!! That's the flexitarian lifestyle right there! We have a community of flexitarians craving delicious food and change: http://bit.ly/primeroots
I think the transition may take a long time. As long as it tastes different, people will refuse to say it tastes “better”. The millennial generation is completely obsessed with consuming what is “real” and “authentic”.
I’d go as far as to say humans just don’t have objective “taste”. Their enjoyment of food is largely based on an emotional story that plays out in their head - maybe adaptive from the days of hunting and foraging. There’s sort of a “courting” phase and a “sex” (eating) phase.
It doesn't have to be plant proteins.
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