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Retric on Nov 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2...

A factory is not going to produce a states worth of meat. Possibly a small city's worth, but Americans eat 1 billion pounds of meat per year an this stuff is going to take at least hours if not weeks to grow.

Hupriene on Nov 14, 2016 [–]

I think you are off by quite a bit on how much meat Americans eat.

214.8 lbs per capita per annum * 318 million people = ~68 billion lbs per annum

See: http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/sta...

Retric on Nov 14, 2016 | [–]

There are 50 states. So, a states worth of meat should be around a billion pounds. Granted, some states have a relatively tiny population.

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