Eventually, the new techniques for growing meat in a lab will become widespread. A future generation will grow up eating it, think nothing of it, and the problem will be solved. Toxic agriculture is thriving right now for the same reason the toxic finance and toxic defense industries are: many if not most of our representatives are bought and paid for, and they know they have to stay bought - or else.
I don’t agree. Have you ever been a farmer?
You are competing, like any business man, to sell your products to the highest bidder to maximize your profits while keeping your expenses down.
It would be great to be an organic farmer, never using chemicals, but that usually means your yield is much less compared to those who use chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. If you can find niche buyers; great, but for most farmers, this is not viable.
The fact that farmers love subsidies for corn is not because congressman voted for it, but the other way around. The farmers vote for those who give them more profit.
There are millions of farmers out there. A substantial number lose their farms due to crop failures, weather, over production during abundant years, etc, etc. So keeping costs down and getting the best yield, animal or plant, is where farmers want(and need) to be.
Factories will always out-produce home-made industries. Same goes for farming techniques.
Cheap abundant food is a mark of Western civilization. There is, however, like anything else in this world, a cost associated with that. Most are willing to pay it, or at least not worry about it.