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Dutch firm Meatable can turn pig stem cells into sausages 60 times faster than farmers can rear pigs. (tech.eu)
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[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think you got your timing wrong. The first prototype of cultured meat was presented 2013 and costed about 250.000 € back then. "Minus scaling up" was and is a pretty big issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/05/world-first-synthetic-hamburger-mouth-feel