They feel unnatural and unconventional and is something a large part of the population will be unable to relate to.
Food is a very cultural thing.
We've also been educated to buy and prepare our own meals from the most natural/unprocessed ingredients as possible and avoid heavily industrialized/preprocess ingredients for health reasons.
Lab grown meat is the opposite of both of that.
I am just playing Devil's advocate here. I understand the appeal and potential environmental benefits as well.
I wouldn’t be so sure that most of the population could relate to the horrors of factory farms and slaughter houses—where basically all meat they’re buying comes from no matter how many alleged free roam grass fed consumers claim to exist on social media.
That’s why there are laws to keep them from seeing it. Which might be why so many HNers think animals grow up in sunshine and rainbows and it’s the sterile lab that's icky.
While this technology is becoming mainstream, those of us that are okay with it should understand there is something fundamentally "icky" for some people. Which is difficult to debate rationally.
This is partly the fault of Sci-fi, bio-engineering is rarely shown as a positive in TV and Film.
This will be mostly solved with time, eventually it may become economically unviable to buy "field meat" (not sure what the term will be), and it will become a lot more accepted when they see the people around them enjoying it without severe consequences.
It's almot 1000 a year. There's probably <10k homeless and 2-3k addicts on the street. Total addict population is significantly larger, but it still seems like a significant fraction of the total. I'm not sure I buy the article's claim that most of this is happening on the street since the growth of SROs (and closing of the overdose center) seem to provide privacy that allows more overdoses, but the boom in fentanyl (now tranq) seems to keep coming.
I'm not sure there are simple solutions to this that don't have side effects. Mostly, the goal seems to be to move it out of sight, and to be fair many of the people came to SF on bus tickets provided by other localities with the same goal. At the same time there's a level of permission in some areas that doesn't seem to change (kind of like the smash and grabs in all the tourist areas) what ever they say about law and order.
It's not like police have been motivated to do much about it for at least the last 30 years.
What if he is watching videos about quantum physics, and he might have been the next Einstein, if his parents didn't restrict his access to the information superhighway?
YT has a watch history so this “what if” can be easily tested. In case it’s true you can then supplement the internet superhighway with some relevant books on the subject.
Is this serious? Paper straws were partly about moral panic about ocean plastic getting in to animals, and don't seem directly related to climate change.
I think it makes more sense to use 'plankton' as a food source, for making nutritious green wafers. They can be called 'Soylent Green'.
This could also help to solve the over-population problem.