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Datar: Cultivated meat is in the 'trough of disillusionment' but will happen
“We're in this kind of trough of disillusionment, as they call it in the hype cycle terminology, where people are like, what do you mean this thing will never happen, it's been way too long, when actually, it will happen, it's just, now we've kind of set oursel…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 8:28 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Datar: Climate change and avian flu will destabilize chicken prices
“The price of chicken is not as stable as we think it's going to be, especially in a climate changed world. We're seeing that with the price of eggs right now, with the avian flus. And so, you know, let's, let's not forget that things that seem constant for the…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 17:13 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Datar: Cell ag growth media startups can pivot to selling to pharma
“Even though that's a big cost center, that is actually kind of like a good place for business right now, because you can sell better media, cheaper media ingredients to pharma today.”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 32:32 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Datar: Less marketing distraction will yield better cell ag science over time
“I also think in the next five years, better science will happen because the distraction of marketing and comms is decreasing, and so all these little kind of news tidbits about what's going on that really, you know, they sound big when they come out, but did t…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 40:36 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Assertion Supported
Datar: Cellular agriculture lacks standardized cell lines common in biomedicine
“We don't have those standardized cells in cellular agriculture. So where one researcher in the biomedical space can just open up a catalog and say, hey, I need to order this, and this, You understand how they perform, and you just get to work on your work. The…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 11:50 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Assertion Supported
Datar: Cellular agriculture research has boomed significantly since 2015
“There's institutes of cellular agriculture around the world, where in 2015 there was zero. There are hundreds of grad students working on cell ag research around the world, where in 2015 there was like two, you know, like I could count them on one hand.”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 38:51 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
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