I don't know if you remember that post I did about the people slaughtering a sheep (on a public street) to consecrate a new Mercedes, and onlookers were horrified and very upset? I think that's part of what is affecting people -- they don't actually want to think about where meat comes from, generally. They know it's disgusting. This alternative, a new way of doing things, is also disgusting, but given that it's not the old type of disgusting, they can point all their loathing at it instead.
I don't eat beef and pork (for ... well, since 1986, however long that is) because of the synthetic hormones and antibodies and other really nasty stuff they load into cattle and pigs, and also because of concerns about other chemical and biochemical concentrations (like, say, prions.) As such, lab meat *might* be better, but I'd want to know a lot about what they were feeding into it before I'd touch it. There is extensive evidence of widespread toxic effects on people from chemical contamination (not, by any means, only via food) and lab steak might well have even MORE of these nasties. We've lived with bacteria for thousands of years; nearly every adult on the planet is carrying at least a kilogram of bacteria (and has more bacterial cells than body cells in eir body) but we have not been living with fluorinated anabolic steroids for thousands of years. We know a fair bit about how bacteria can kill us; we know a lot less about the long-term effects of food that is steeped in tons of exotic, non-human-rated antibiotics, or, for that matter, growth hormones and cell adhesion molecule stimulators that might be involved in vat steaks.
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I don't eat beef and pork (for ... well, since 1986, however long that is) because of the synthetic hormones and antibodies and other really nasty stuff they load into cattle and pigs, and also because of concerns about other chemical and biochemical concentrations (like, say, prions.) As such, lab meat *might* be better, but I'd want to know a lot about what they were feeding into it before I'd touch it. There is extensive evidence of widespread toxic effects on people from chemical contamination (not, by any means, only via food) and lab steak might well have even MORE of these nasties. We've lived with bacteria for thousands of years; nearly every adult on the planet is carrying at least a kilogram of bacteria (and has more bacterial cells than body cells in eir body) but we have not been living with fluorinated anabolic steroids for thousands of years. We know a fair bit about how bacteria can kill us; we know a lot less about the long-term effects of food that is steeped in tons of exotic, non-human-rated antibiotics, or, for that matter, growth hormones and cell adhesion molecule stimulators that might be involved in vat steaks.