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It seems like all the arguments there are predicated on the "meat" being actual muscle cells in a vat, though. Wouldn't it be just as likely that the successfully engineered food ends up being just, like, kelp with GM'd amino acid byproducts or something? Or chicken-of-the-woods with more random proteins thrown in? (I mean as long as they don't kill the culture, it doesn't matter if it benefits the host organism.)

I'm sure that's all harder than it sounds. But I doubt it's the same "wall of no" as muscles in a vat.