[brasmasus]

>...but we’re still years away from seeing viable, affordable artificial meat – and probably many more years from convincing the public to eat it.

What about Quorn's 'mycoprotein'? They've been making it for years, and people have been eating it. There's some controversy, of course, but go into any grocery store and it's there. Not half bad either imo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn

[kfitchard]

(Disclaimer: I'm the article's author.) Quorn isn't an artificial meat. It's a meat substitute or imitation meat. There are a lot of these on the market right now like Beyond Meat. In-vitro meat actually seeks to grow animal muscle cells. Think cloning steaks :)

[stdbrouw]

I think the OP was pointing out that it's not impossible to convince people to eat stuff like this. If you can get people to eat fungus grown in large vats (Quorn), then with the right marketing you can probably get them to eat artificial meat.