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I remember reading this article on the subject and finding it interesting: https://archive.ph/8xyWx
My terrible summary of that article is that it's really hard to turn cell goop into something that is recognizably hamburger. There's a shitload of structure to meat so you have to make the cells do their "turn into this part of a cow" thing. That's been really difficult to scale up. One shortcut you can take is to use actual animal meat as a starter, but then you're no longer making vegetarian meat, and I seem to recall there being some other issue with that.
I really want lab grown meat to work, but I'm losing hope.
If we made a continuously long chain of meat using artificial cells, at what point is is it just the cells? Or is it still the Meat of Theseus?