Have any more of those conspiracies where you are from? What else are "they" controlling?
Seriously right now the cost is higher because of economical scaling not being nearly as efficient with better products since there isn't enough demand.
Meat replacements got much cheaper in the last 5 years because they managed to scale better because more people kept buying them and they likely could go even cheaper but apparently people wouldn't trust replacements under a certain price point (but somehow they don't have a problem buying pork for even less money)
I really hope that this has potential to be upscaled enough to be part of the solution even though I doubt it can create enough production capacities in the next 10 years
The biggest meat-replacement producer in Germany right now is a company that until 20 years ago only produced meat products. I think it was 2 years ago that they made more profit with their replacements and are projected to stop producing meat altogether in the next 2 decades because of how many people bought their replacements and how they don't need the meat anymore to survive
As someone from Germany my toes curl everytime someone blames "the elite" - that's a very dangerous road of thinking to go down...
Those 0,1% don't matter if the 99,9% don't slow down their emmisions, too.
Everyone cutting down a little bit is helping A LOT more that the richest 0,1% cutting down most. Sure they pollute a lot more than your average person so they totally should cut down but imho it's mostly about creating acceptance than about the pure emissions.
Plane Tickets for a city trip between European capitals are like 20-50€
Tickets to the most popular holiday destinations are regularly possible to get for less than 100€
Sure it's not for the poorest 20-30% but I was mostly talking about the huge amount of people in the middle class.
My point is that it doesn't matter - you can always choose. The American settlement-style of making it impossible to do stuff on foot even within cities is one of the very few things I'd count as something where you don't really have a choice.
for one people could just stop eating meat - or stop treating flying as a normal thing you do for holiday
the problem is that most people think others are to blame for one reason or anoher and don't see that literally everyone has to change...
this whole thing is just a huge prisoner's dilemma and noone will make the first move in fear of others not moving and exploiting that situation in the short term while ignoring that they are fucking over the planet in the long run...
people could stop flying for leisure - they could stop using their car for every trip that could also be made by bike - they could vote for politicians that are actually campaigning for changing stuff instead of promising people to keep their lifes as it is - they could stop eating meat every day
there's a lot of stuff a single person can choose to not do that would result in huge change if enough people did it since that would actually allow even moderate politicians to change things that actually matter.
if a politician right now is even thinking about banning beef or tripling the price of gas and making flights even more expensive than that they can pretty much start looking for another job since that would be a huge change for a huge part of the population - if enough people started deliveratly foregoing beef or using the most convenient option possible then we might have a chance.
the problem is that people are fucking lazy and a lot of them are egoistic, too - so everyone just claims that others have to change first...
and then there are those "bUt ChInA1!1!"-guys that totally ignore that china is building more renewables each month than any other country does per year and that they still pollute less per person than western countries and also less in total over the last 150 years than western countries, too.
it's people in the US or Europe that have to lead the charge since they are the ones that profited MASSIVELY from the pollution 100 years ago that led us into this mess...
Have any more of those conspiracies where you are from? What else are "they" controlling?
Seriously right now the cost is higher because of economical scaling not being nearly as efficient with better products since there isn't enough demand.
Meat replacements got much cheaper in the last 5 years because they managed to scale better because more people kept buying them and they likely could go even cheaper but apparently people wouldn't trust replacements under a certain price point (but somehow they don't have a problem buying pork for even less money)