I don't consider any of those "replacement meats," they're foods in their own right. Falafel fits the bill as well, maybe mushrooms. The real problem is scale.

I don't consider any of those "replacement meats," they're foods in their own right. Falafel fits the bill as well, maybe mushrooms. The real problem is scale. We're much more likely to develop a microbial or fungal nutrient sponge that's far easier to manage (and probably better for you + the environment) than develop some sort of highly advanced fake meat extruder. One of the biggest issues really is momentum. It will be 20-30 years before a technology can compete with a guy in muddy jeans on a tractor. We are disrupting the fossil fuel industry, but that industry is only really about a hundred and fifty years old. The agricultural industry is nearly ten thousand years old, and it's experiencing its own renaissance with the advent of IoT.