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I'd think something like "lab-grown maple syrup" would be easier both to sell and (knowing nothing about how it would be produced) to produce. I love real maple
by mcbits 3y ago
I'd think something like "lab-grown maple syrup" would be easier both to sell and (knowing nothing about how it would be produced) to produce. I love real maple syrup but can't justify paying $15 for a little vial of it. A 10-story building filled with layer upon layer of sap seeping from living wood cells is less disturbing of a vision than layers of pulsating flesh.
- ethanbond 3y agoBut the upside, financially and environmentally, is not nearly as substantial.
- stasmo 3y agoGood point. Environmentally it would probably be net negative to stop using trees and move the production to a lab that consumes electricity.
- mcbits 3y agoWe can keep using trees, but this particular use of trees is already energy-intensive, materially intensive (thousands of miles of plastic tubes), sensitive to the weather each year, and geographically limited.