New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000
  • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If that was the case why wouldn’t corporations do this for everything they produce?

    They do it for medicine.

    But we don’t require meat at all to survive…How exactly are you going to curb demand for regular meat if lab meat is priced at extortion level pricing.

    Inserting ideology it’s usually enough. Stupid legislation removing rights for religious reasons has been ridiculously easy to pass recently in many countries. Create a stupid enough ideological reason and any idea can be voted for the populace.

    Pharmacology is just specific enough that changing a product significantly enough to avoid a patent violation will also make the drug ineffectual.

    For that you need science. My country just elected a president who’s vowed to destroy public education, to eliminate all subsidies for scientific investigation and reducing the state to the minimal expression. That’s enough to have drugs only manufactured by companies who can name whatever price they like for their medications.

    Pretty much everything you claimed is only somewhat pertinent to the pharmaceutical industry, and only because of the extreme cost of entry due to the necessary regulation.

    There is life outside the US, you know.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They do it for medicine

      Yeah, I already explained the circumstances that allow for natural monopolies to thrive. Qhy do you think you don’t see this outside of medicine?

      Inserting ideology it’s usually enough. Stupid legislation removing rights for religious reasons has been ridiculously easy to pass recently in many countries. Create a stupid enough ideological reason and any idea can be voted for the populace.

      I was talking about price and consumption, now your talking about legislation that would force people to buy food they can’t afford… You’re moving the goal post, and with a claim that makes no sense.

      That’s enough to have drugs only manufactured by companies who can name whatever price they like for their medications.

      That’s not how the price of medication is determined… Insurance groups, or social medical systems barter as a group with drug corporations over drug prices. Even if your country abandoned government funding for science, I doubt it’s going to be the cause of increased prices for medication. The vast majority of countries import their medications, as most lack the civil regulatory bodies that would be able to clinically test a medicationa efficacy.

      If your prices go up, it’s probably because to someone in the government is getting kickbacks from drug corporations to be less aggressive in their group bartering process.

      There is life outside the US, you know.

      You are the one who is utilizing the American pharmacutical industry as an evidence to support your assertion.

      Your original claim is literally impossible. The economic, intellectual property rights, and geopolitical legislation you used in your argument are all inaccurate.