I was ahead of the curve on this one. This article up at the BCC shows that some scepticism has finally entered the commentary on the potential for lab grown meat:
Why cultivated meat is still so hard to find in restaurants
It's a good read.
I note that George Monbiot's promotion of microbial production of protein ("precision fermentation" of animal proteins) is not attracting all that much attention, yet. Maybe the problem is a lack of good examples of products? I see there is also some skepticism around the ability to scale it economically, but I strongly suspect that it is much more do-able than growing animal cells in expensive nutrient, and arranging them into something resembling meat.
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